Abstract
In the ninth book of the Odyssey Homer makes Odysseus describe at some length that wonderful wine with which he subdued the Cyclops Polyphemus. It had such strength and sweetness that it was drunk mixed with twenty parts of water. Soon after setting out homeward from Troy, Odysseus and his men landed on the coast of Thrace and plundered the Ciconian city Ismarus (later called Maronea).2 As a reward for sparing the shrine of Apollo, Odysseus received twelve jars of this wine from his priest Maron, Euanthes' son. Odysseus says Od. ix. 196 ff.:
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