Maron's wine
object · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Bacchus's liquor · Dionysus' drink · Maronian wine · heavenly drink · the draught of wine · the sweet black wine · the wine · wine · wine given by Maron
in the texts
Cyclops
The supernaturally potent wine given to Odysseus by Maron, son of Dionysus, which intoxicates the Cyclops and makes the blinding possible
No gold bring I, but Dionysus’ drink.
Yes, it was Maron, the god’s son, who gave me a draught.
I filled a cup of this Maronian wine and offered him a draught, saying, Cyclops, son of Ocean’s god, see here what heavenly drink the grapes of Hellas yield, glad gift of Dionysus.
Odyssey
The extraordinarily strong, unblended wine given to Odysseus by Maron, used to intoxicate the Cyclops.
He was so delighted with the taste of the wine that he begged me for another bowl full.
then, when I saw that the wine had got into his head, I said to him as plausibly as I could:
so he made me some presents of great value - seven talents of fine gold, and a bowl of silver, with twelve jars of sweet wine, unblended, and of the most exquisite flavor.
Theaetetus
The cup of wine used as a concrete illustrative example of how the same object produces different, relationally determined perceptions in a healthy versus an ill perceiver.
So, then, when I am in health and drink wine, it seems pleasant and sweet to me?
Therefore the union of the Socrates who is ill and the draught of wine produces other results:
But when it gets hold of me in illness, in the first place, it really doesn’t get hold of the same man, does it?