MENU HomeHeadingsHistory and surroundings HISTORY AND SURROUNDINGS The sense of measure in wine and in life Studies on the cup of Pythagoras SUNDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER 2018 20.08 On the streets of Ancient Greece landed in Puglia, in Canosa , at my house, the terracotta cup of Pythagoras in the hands of our friends and family who visited from the Cathedral of San Sabino with Don Felice Bacco, Athens and the places of art and of history of Greece, in the common Hellenic roots of the prestigious Kaniusion cited by Strabo. If others have to travel, and I am happy, it is my turn to study the Pythagorean Cup and present it in its hydraulic structure where a liquid is not allowed to overflow but instead pours onto the external bottom through a small hole in the lower part. of the cup, which empties completely.It is the principle of communicating vessels, discovered after centuries onwards, which does not overflow the level of the liquid in the cup, which has become famous and reproduced in Hellenic art and philosophy. The bowl had a hollow bell in the center of the base, with a perforated top and a peak that reached level causing the wine to leak under the base. The ingenious invention is attributed to Pythagoras, a mathematician and philosopher born in Samos in Ancient Greece in the sixth century. to. C. The historical reference in fact reports the island of Samo in 530 a. C. with the works of the water supply, under the tyranny of Polycrates , who wanted to make Samos a hegemonic power in the Aegean Sea. Polycrateshe had strong walls built around the capital and in order to supply it with water he had a tunnel more than a kilometer long dug through a mountain, in which a conduit was dug to transport water from the numerous sources of the island. During the work for the supply of water, Polycrates faced the problem of moderating the workers' wine consumption in productivity and it was Pythagoras who remedied and invented the Cup of Justice . It became not only a physical principle, but also a moral and political one, a teaching that is still relevant today, indicating the sense of proportion in all things. The physical and moral principle is also taken up in Ancient Rome with the maxim of the Venosian poet Horace,in Satires I, vv. 106-107: " est modus in rebus", "there is a measure in things". We welcome the ingenuity, the art and the morality of the intelligent glass, of the cup of Pythagoras, not only in the moderation of drinking wine, but also in food, health, spirit, politics. The Hellenic Cup, Κύπελλο Πυθαγόρας (transl. Pythagorean cupello), from a souvenir of our travelers' Greece, becomes a sense of life without time and without borders. In the popular civilization of our fathers, a wooden glass, or even a mug , was presented in the bride's trousseau , "u rezzùle" in the use of wine, "nu rezzùle di mìre". It is a lemma reported in the book of Dialectology, "On the cobblestone streets of the Canosian dialect", in its custom, in the Latin etymological root of the orciolo, from "urceolus". The Greek physician of the second century. d. C. also mentions and describes it the late Giambattista Minerva, agronomist, in handing the wine in the mug to the reapers in the fields of Canosa. Polychrates handed it to the builders of the aqueduct on the island of Samo and today we offer it to you on the Adriatic roads from the vineyards and rows of our hills, but with .... measure! 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