"Here, Cyclops, try this wine – to top off
the banquet of human flesh you’ve bolted down!
Judge for yourself what stock our ship had stored.
I brought it here to make you a fine libation,
hoping you would pity me, Cyclops, send me home,
but your rages are insufferable. You barbarian –
how can any man on earth come visit you after this?
What you’ve done outrages all that’s right!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 9, lines 388-395. Cunning Odysseus sets about getting Polyphemus drunk, so that he and his crew can attack him. He offers him a wooden bowl filled to the brim with full-bodied wine.