Talk:Lesbos wine

A fact from Lesbos wine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 November 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Lesbian wines were some of the most highly sought after wines of the Ancient Greeks?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/November.

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Pramnian Wine in the Odyssey

Where in the Odyssey does it say that the pramnian wine being referenced is from Lesbos? I've checked the Emily Wilson translation and the one listed as the reference and nowhere does it say that Circe specially gave them Lesbian wine, only that it was pramnian wine. I've been doing research on the island of Ikaria and Ikarian history and there are several text referencing pramnian being made in Ikaria. However, I found the only one quote that pramnian was lesbian.

If there is something I'm missing or there is a better way to do classical research like this, please let me know. Karoutsose (talk) 21:23, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this article is definitely wrong, especially in the redirect from Pramnian Wine, which is quite a common reference is ancient texts and definitely wine from the Pramnos mountain of the island of Ikaria. Even in the single mention of pramnian wine in association with Lesbos (from Deipnosophistai), that mention reads like someone mentions they like the pramnian type wine from Lesbos. Then there is an entire section on the same work, devoted to explaining how pramnian wine is from Ikaria. If nobody writes it up, I might return to give it a go. Dkechag (talk) 12:41, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]