The Greeks have a very close relationship with wine for thousands of years. Viticulture has existed in the Greek territory since Neolithic times and it was during the Bronze Age that the domestic cultivation of the vine developed that, with the commercial contact between the Mycenaean civilization and Ancient Egypt, made the qualitative leap.
The methods for making wine then came from Egypt and by the second millennium BC there was a whole culture of wine. Wine became important in economic, religious and cultural terms. Dionysus, for example, was the Greek god of wine, and as the Greeks established colonies throughout the Mediterranean, they took viticulture with them.
The ancient Greeks they used to drink the wine in glasses called kylix. These goblets had a wide, open, low-cup shape, usually with one stem and two symmetrically positioned horizontal handles. The circle of the glass was almost flat and was usually decorated, in black or red, in scenes that only appeared as the wine was drunk. The kylix they were made of terracota, then they were reddish, and later the artisans decorated them and gave them a glossy finish.
Kylix cups were used especially at parties and decorations used to be funny or sexual.