Monday, February 8, 2016

Bread and...Grape...Juice...

Today's classes focused squarely on The Two Great Gods of the Earth:
Demeter!
Three Cheers for the healthy harvest!
Bless this grain, and let's bake some bread to break!
Sweet Persephone, I miss you all winter long!

and, erm...
Dionysus...
Sweet vines, man.
I always thought dolphins were cool.
How about some, uh, grape juice?
Alright, alright, I know, it wasn't grape juice that he was the god of, it was wine.  It's a perennial headache to try to teach this god to immature Freshmen. So the point of studying him was not to simply praise wine all the live-long day, but to impress upon the students the dictum:
Moderation in all things.
Even the Greeks knew that it's not good to have too much of a good thing.



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