Passum

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Passum ( passon , stapidites or hepsema ) wasa Cretan sweet winein Roman antiquity from the 1st to 4th centuries(probably corresponding to today's dessert wine ), which, along with other types of wine, was an important export item on the Mediterranean island, which wasincorporated into the Roman Empire. Passum is mentioned by numerous Greek and Latin authors as a luxury and medicinal product.

In addition, the types of wine athalassos as wine without seawater, hydatodes as light white wine and theraios as sweet wine came from ancient Crete . In the Asklepios sanctuary in Lebana in southern Crete , the wine, mixed with pepper, was used as a medicine, as inscriptions show.

The Cretan wine export in post-Christian times resulted from the social and economic change that Crete was subject to after the Roman conquest (67 BC). On the island, which was united with the Cyrenaica to form a province , there was now and especially after the epoch of the Roman civil wars an economic renewal towards a plantation economy that specifically included wine and olive cultivation and exports to Italy and the west of the Roman world Rich was aligned.

Mentioned for the first time in writing by Mago, there is a detailed excerpt in Book 12 of the work De re rustica by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/De_Re_Rustica/Liber_XII#XXXIX._PASSUM_QUEMADMODUM_FIAT . Liber XII in WIKISOURCE

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