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Corpse Wine: Dionysiac Imagery and the Fermentation of the Dead in Roman Sarcophagi

Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum 801 S Patterson Ave, Oxford, OH, United States

A lecture by Mont Allen, Southern Illinois University Why are roughly one-ninth of all surviving Roman sarcophagi shaped not like rectangular boxes with squared-off ends, but instead like lenoi: those large tubs or vats with rounded ends in which Greeks and Romans pressed grapes and fermented the juice to make wine, an association underscored by […]