Even the common people drank wine in Troy

Researchers from the Universities of Tübingen, Bona, and Gena in Germany discovered that not only members of the Trojan elite, but also ordinary people, drank wine.

Trojans of all classes enjoyed a nice jug of wine

Homer’s The Iliad recounts one of history’s greatest legendary epics. It also describes a round of drinks shared by the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus. “Hephaestus spoke, then stood up, passed a double goblet across to his dear mother… As he spoke, the white-armed goddess Hera smiled,” Homer writes. “She reached for her son’s goblet. He poured the drink, going from right to left, for all the other gods, drawing off sweet nectar from the mix…

Uncorking the past: new analysis of Troy findings rewrites the story of wine in the early bronze age

Depas amphikypellon from Schliemann’s excavations at Troy. Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen/Valentin Marquardt, CC BY-SAWine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research has established for the first time. Colleagues at the University of Tübingen and I have discovered that wine was also enjoyed by the common folk, independent of upper-clas…

Even the common people drank wine in Troy

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a conjecture of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the legendary fortress city in the 19th century. In addition, the researchers from the Universities of Tübingen, Bonn and Jena found that not only members of the Trojan elite but the common people too drank wine. Their findings are now being published in the April edition o…

For a long time, the research believed that wine enjoyment was reserved for the elite in the early Bronze Age. Now, Tübingen researchers proved: In Troy, ordinary people also drank.

Madrid. For the first time chemical evidence has been found that Troy drank wine, which confirms the conjecture of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the legendary fortress city in the 19th century.