Roman Pot Or Not? Archaeologists Find Mysterious Seeds At Excavation Site In England
Romans are known for having parties that were wild enough to make it into history books. That is thanks to the ancient historians who kept their pens, ink and papyrus ready at all times to record their impressions of Rome’s celebrations such as the Bacchanalia and Dionysia. Festivals in honor of Bacchus, the Roman form of Greek Dionysus, the wine god, were celebrated with “dancing, song and revelry,” says the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
One cannot help but wonder whether cannabis was used on such occasions.
According to an article published in the Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics in 2002, the earliest evidence of cannabis use in classical antiquity – the period during which ancient Greece and Rome flourished – is related to Herodotus’ record of the hemp vapor baths used by the ancient Scythians who were ancient nomadic people originally from Iran. This indicates that cannabis was not known to the Greeks in the fifth century BCE. Fast-forward some five …