287: HAD DRINK TAKEN
Apart from the innumerable Greek, Roman, and Byzantine sources, you can drink in much more from Mark Forsyth’s A Short History of Drunkenness (2017), also Max Nelson’s The Barbarian’s Beverage: A History of Beer in Ancient Europe (2008) based on his 2001 doctoral thesis – researched/written in the pub?
“Charles was not much of a drinker” – Steinmeyer’s biography of Fort, p71.
It’s a cliché that Britain has a drinking culture. Many ancient civilisations did as well. Egyptian pictures show partygoers copiously vomiting. Their god of drinking, Shezmu,