THE MEDITERRANEAN

DEFINITION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

  The magic of mediterranean countries is defined by the olive and wine culture?

The concepts of Mediterranean and Mediterranean world indicate areas located around the Mediterranean Sea. These cover the southern Mediterranean regions of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The boundary of the basin of the Mediterranean world and refers mainly to the Mediterranean climate and in particular the limit of olive cultivation. Other cultural or historical criteria also help delineate the Mediterranean region. Mediterranean culture or civilization is then defined by an ancient heritage and medieval fort, related to Greco-Roman civilization, Judeo-Christian and Islamic. This culture is embodied in the food by the predominance of vegetables, fruit, fish, bread, olive oil and wine.

For the ancient Greek and Latin singing "the vinous sea" poets, the Mediterranean was inseparable from the invention of wine, one of the first benefits of the gods. The cult of the wine is not limited to religious practices, but also had implications multiple and paradoxical effects of the wine itself, which reflects the plasticity of divine figures who were associated with him. Benefactors and vigilante related orgiastic sacrifice and the origin of shows like divination and poetic inspiration, admitted to the banquet philosophers and always escorted by drunken satyrs who have the gift of truth, Dionysus and Bacchus everywhere to their renewing power in literature and art as well as in ethics and political philosophy.
Mutations of modern and contemporary society have retained traces ....