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Drinking like Homer

By Jamie Dettmer

Published April 12, 2019 4:00am ET

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Drinking like Homer — Even “their women drank,” the Greek philosopher Plato once groused about the wine-drinking Thracians of what is now southern Bulgaria. And why not? Taking time off from the angry political clashes of a continent on which factions see every issue as one of existential, fundamental, uncompromising importance, I decided to distance myself and nip off […]

Even “their women drank,” the Greek philosopher Plato once groused about the wine-drinking Thracians of what is now southern Bulgaria.

And why not?

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