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Empedocles’ Account of Wine (fr.81) and Premodern Oenology
Leon Wash

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 64 (2). 2024.

In Empedocles’ “wine is water from bark, rotten in wood,” the reference is not to a wooden cask but to the grapevine itself, in which wine was thought to form naturally.