Abstract
Wine, symbol of civilization in the Mediterranean for millennia and still a profound cultural marker in Europe today, is not often associated with the Goths.1 But there is evidence allowing us to add this Northern European barbarian people to the tapestry of ancient wine production2 at the same time that they were beginning to cultivate the first European barbarian literature with the translation of the Bible into the Gothic language.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2011
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Copyright © 2011 Cambridge University Press. This chapter first appeared in The Barbarians of Ancient Europe: Realities and Interactions.
Edited by: Larissa Bonfante
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Recommended Citation
Stevenson, Walter. "The Identity of Late Barbarians: Goths and Wine." In The Barbarians of Ancient Europe: Realities and Interactions, edited by Larissa Bonfante, 358-69. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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