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Modern Description: The southern tip of the island beyond Potós, now somewhat forgotten, appears to have been an important area of wine production in antiquity. Both at Vamvouri Ammoudiá to the west, and at Koukos to the east, of Cape Salonikios, workshops making wine amphorae have been excavated; at Kamnarokaïko, 2 km south of Potos, on a rise to the north of the road, are the remains of a fortified Hellenistic farmstead. These are the elements of what was an integrated local economy based on wine in antiquity. That wine was famous in the Greek world and was widely exported. It was over a cup of Thasian wine that Aristophanes makes the companions of Lysistrata swear to renounce their men for as long as the war lasts. Callias served it at banquets in honour of Socrates and Autolycus. Xenophon praises it. Archestratos, the gourmand, compares it to the best of wines. And, for the Epicureans, Thasian wine was one of the principal pleasures of living.
Trismegistos Geo: 58696

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(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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