The wheat, the wine and the oil are the three characteristic products of Mediterranean cultures from the Neolithic.<\/b><\/p>\n
\n\tThese products are always present, essential for feeding people and also essential in many religious rites and in different moments of social life, including specially the banquet.<\/p>\n
\n\tWe can say that in the Ancient World<\/em> there are a whole wine culture in many ways similar to the current times. So then, as now, there were some renowned ,but other less appreciated or common, wines.<\/p>\n \n\tThen, as now, these wines received the name of their place of origin or provenance. So the "Rioja<\/em>" or "Ribera<\/em>”" or "Burgundy<\/em>" or "Bourdeaux<\/em>" of the Antiquity were then the "Caecubus<\/em>”, the "Caelenus<\/em>" the "Falernus<\/em>" or "Formianus<\/em>", natives of Caecubum, Cales, Falernum or Formiae .<\/p>\n \n\tThe poet Horace<\/em> summarizes perfectly these data, for example, in an ode<\/em> (Odes 1.20)<\/em> in which, wanting to regale their protector, the wealthy Maecenas<\/em>, accustomed to fine and high price wines, invites him to a common "Sabinus<\/em>" , albeit it was of the crop year in which the patron of the poet overcame a serious illness and Horace reaped it and now offers it to remember that happy time.<\/p>\n \n\t \n\tVile potabis modicis Sabinum cantharis…. \n\t Caecubum et prelo domitam Caleno \n\tObviously, these wines were not affordable by the poet. Rarely poetry and a good economic situation formed a couple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The wheat, the wine and the oil are the three characteristic products of Mediterranean cultures from the Neolithic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-habits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquitatem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tYou will drink with me this Sabine common wine in not large cups
\n\tYou will drink then a "Caecuban" wine and this one pressed of Calenian grapes,
\n\tFalernas vines or vines of Formias hills do not fill my cups<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\t ……….<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\t tu bibes uvam: mea nec Falernae
\n\t temperant vites neque Formiani
\n\t pocula colles.<\/em><\/p>\n