As always, the BMJ turns frivolous for its Christmas issue. Greek scholars may enjoy an article examining classical Greek attitudes to sensible drinking, based on a fragment from Eubulus' Semele or Dionysus (the fragments seem not to be in the Perseus digital library)
Classically intoxicated: correlations between quantity of alcohol consumed and alcohol related problems in a classical Greek text
Christopher C H Cook, Helen Tarbet, David Ball
BMJ 2007;335:1302-1304, doi:10.1136/bmj.39420.333565.BE
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