Stavroula Kourakou-Dragona
NEMEA. AN HISTORICAL WINELAND
Translated by Alexandra Doumas
Foinikas Publications, 2012
NEMEA. AN HISTORICAL WINELAND
Translated by Alexandra Doumas
Foinikas Publications, 2012
CONTENTS
Lovely Araethyrea and the Phliasia chora
Phliasian wine and the Nemean Games
Memories from the remote past
Herakleion – Archaia Nemea
The people of the Phliasia chora
Wine-loving Herakles and wine-serving Hebe
Ancient Cleonae and the temple of Herakles
Divine ‘plant protection’ at Phlious and Cleonae
Agios Georgios, the Polyphengos of the Middle Ages
In February prune, examine not the moon
The erstwhile Phliasia chora under foreign domination
The Columns: Many admired them, passersby. One fell in love with them and stayed near them
Τhe wine of Agios Georgios in texts of foreign travellers in the 19th century
Agiorgitiko wine in the 19th century
The wine of Nemea in the 20th century
The wine Appellation of Origin Nemea
The Agiorgitiko grape
Nemean Wine
Wine Protected Designation of Origin Nemea