In this episode, we will see how the Romans took the Greeks’ drinking culture and remade it as their own. Unlike their Hellenistic counterparts, however, the Romans proved to be a bit more rambunctious when it came to their love of wine. And as we will see, some Romans even built (and destroyed) their reputations by it. Tune in to hear a little bit about Roman drinking games, just how much wine the average Roman drank in the past, and how the infamous Mark Antony became one of ancient Rome's most famous drunkards.

Sources:

Plutarch, The Parallel Lives, Loeb Classical Library edition (1920).

Michael Beer, “The de sua ebrietate of Marcus Antonius: an attempt to please everyone?” Paper draft accessed via Academia.edu.

Mark Humphries, “The Lexicon of Abuse: Drunkenness and Political Illegitimacy in the Late Roman World,” in Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, edited by Guy Halsall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Karen Lyon, “The Four Humors: Eating in the Renaissance,” Folger Shakespeare Library (December 4, 2015).

Damien Martin, “When to Say When: Wine and Drunkenness in Roman Society,” Master’s Thesis, University of Missouri (May 2010).

Daniel E. Mortensen, “Wine, Drunkenness, and the Rhetoric of Crisis in Ancient Rome,” doctoral thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1999).

Tom Stevenson and Marcus Wilson, eds., Cicero’s Philippics: History, Rhetoric, Ideology (2008).

Steve Thompson, “‘Daimon Drink’: Ancient Greek and Roman Explanations for Drunkenness,” (January, 2010).

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