The best known and most consumed drink in the Ancient Greece as in all parts of the world was water. Bringing water for the family was done by the women, which could be drawn from a well, but they preferred that from the source that was always gushing, running and therefore was never cloudy.
Water is nutritious, very rich and healthy, it is necessary for human life and for plants.
Pindar Greek lyric poet described it "pleasant as honey is the water of a spring."
The ancient Greeks classified water as heavy, dry, acidic, sweet, hard, strong or with another qualifier.
A character of the comic poet Antiphanes, says that of all waters would recognize the from Attica for your good taste.
Athenaeum Name some important philosophers who did not drink water because they were on a vegetarian diet.
In the Ancient Greece goat's milk or mead was also drunk.
To drink water they had special jugs among them the skiff It could be made of wood, baked earth or metal.
There is also talk of the Spartan kôthon glass that was used in the army, which had a lid to avoid seeing the state of the water and at the same time had something on the edges that imprisoned the earth or mud that could contain the water .
The cup called kilix was also used, in large banquets the closed pitcher or rython was used to drink.
Kilix (500 years BC), it is a wine glass with a wide, shallow mouth, with a stem, two handles and beautiful decorations on the bottom as if to surprise the drinker when he finished drinking the wine.