Abstract
The Greek orator Aelius Aristides (117–c. 180 AD) offers a little known account of the representations of wine at the time of the social and cultural phenomenon of the Second Sophistic. On the one hand, the use of wine or the abstinence from it was rooted in the medical, religious, social and political context the elites of the Roman Empire were part of. On the other hand, wine and symposion themes serve a rhetorical function as they are used as argumentative tools and in renewing oratorical forms. In Aristides, wine has a rather positive image, the banquet remaining one of the major symbols of Hellenistic identity.
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