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Often, and especially now in the summer, I am getting a ruling on whether the ancient Greeks were substitutes for existing refrigerators and even if they were allowed daga to cool various drinks. In both of these questions the answer is positive.
However even the most brief development requires area exceeds the limited space of a serial. daga So I will confine myself to the second question, reserving to another, hopefully also a summer, and serial to deal with first.
As is known, the eminently drink of ancient Greeks was the "uncle wine '. Men, women and children tasted the drink and inserts it especially the first, daga who were talking and chatting for hours every day to reach manhood drinking wine. Participants in krasokatanyxeis are usually not lose the clarity of their minds because the wine consumed daga was watery. Rarely, and for very specific purposes, ancient Greeks drank wine aneroto "neat wine". Mixing wine with water was in large wide mouthed vessels, known as craters, and the usual ratio was three parts water to one of wine. This analogy suggests and Hesiod, daga the poet of the countryside, not missing but written testimonies speak for mixing with water at a greater rate. It is this dominance daga of water was prevented many unpleasant situations for drinkers. Features are the words that puts the comic poet Alexis (4th-3rd daga century BC.) In the mouth of Solon: "Right from the carts selling (in wine:) watery, certainly not to earn something extra, but why foresee for buyers to have after drinking wine head light "(trans. M. Kopidakis).
The water used for the dilution of wine made sure from 'were skiing Pagana "(source), daga from" krinin daga Aenaon and aporryton "or" cold well ". Thus along with the mixing of the wine ancient daga succeeded simultaneously cooling. Widespread was the practice to use and water from melting snow, which, as is well known, had preserved even in summer and traded. However invented and particular ways of cooling wine. Around the middle of the 6th century. B.C. devised a vessel specially built to allow cooling of the wine and keeping it cold as it was stored in large stenostoma vases, amphorae, before being transferred to the craters. More specifically constructed a special type of amphora main feature double walls. With the help of interior walls created the eminently space vessel, into which poured from its mouth, the wine. The space formed by the outer walls and surrounding the interior filled with the help of a spout which was at the top with cold water or snow. Thus they achieved permanent cooling wine, since they could easily renew the coolant when it melted and heated up, with fresh. Through a hole at the bottom of the vessel removed the hot water and then stamp, threw on the outside of fresh snow or cold water. Such vessels, daga known to archaeologists as amphorae - coolers, manufactured in the second half of the 6th century. B.C. in Athens, but in another part of the ancient Greek world, probably in Reggio Magna Graecia, in southern daga Italy. Similar structural details that achieves cooling wine and general fluid encountered sporadically in other oinoforos vessels of the ancient Greeks, such as in jugs.
Through the third quarter of the 6th century. B.C. Athenian daga potters found another way wine cooler that best serve the needs of symposiasts. The former, just described require rapid consumption of wine by the time it passed the amphora - cooler in the crater. But if the consumption rate was slow, then the wine inside daga the crater would lose its freshness. Thus a need has invented another way that would ensure permanent cooling of wine. That is, when it would fill the wine glasses of ancient revelers, known primarily as cups, should be cool or even cold. Coined such a feature manitaroschimo vessel, which, once filled with the wine, placed inside the crater was filled with cold water or snow. Achieves a way that is reminiscent of this cooling in which today keep a cold bottle of champagne or wine as the place in container p