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You are drinking wine wrong according to Ancient Greece #history

Apr 24, 2026
Did you know that by drinking a single cup of straight wine in Ancient Greece, you could be labeled a barbarian? They diluted every pour at a 3 to 1 ratio. Comment "wine" if you had no idea. #shorts #viral #didyouknow #ancientgreece #wine #foodhistory #historyfacts #historyfactsshorts Source: Herodotus, Histories 6.84; Lissarague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet (Princeton, 1990), p. 7