(September 10, 2015 at 1:09 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(September 10, 2015 at 12:23 am)thehedglin Wrote: 1. Beer.
2. Therefore Dionysus.
I think it's "Wine, therefore Dionysus."
Beer would really be more Ceres' Demeter's domain, no?
Dionysus is the god of divine intoxication. He is most strongly associated with wine, but that was simply the drink that the Greeks seemed to enjoy most.
Demeter was the goddess of the harvest, and so one can certainly connect her with grain (and therefore connect her with beer and whisky), but she was associated with food rather than alcohol.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.