Pharmakon: Plato, drug culture, and identity in ancient Athens

✍ Scribed by Plato.;Rinella, Michael Anthony

Publisher: Lexington Books
Year: 2012;2010
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Wine and the symposion -- The symposion and the question of stasis -- Plato's reformulation of the symposion -- Drugs, epic poetry, and religion -- Socrates accused -- Socrates rehabilitated -- Medicine, drugs, and somatic regimen -- Magic, drugs, and noetic regimen -- Speech, drugs, and discursive regimen -- Philosophy's pharmacy.

✦ Table of Contents

Wine and the symposion --
The symposion and the question of stasis --
Plato's reformulation of the symposion --
Drugs, epic poetry, and religion --
Socrates accused --
Socrates rehabilitated --
Medicine, drugs, and somatic regimen --
Magic, drugs, and noetic regimen --
Speech, drugs, and discursive regimen --
Philosophy's pharmacy.

✦ Subjects

Drug abuse--Greece;;Civilization;Drug abuse;Plato;Drug abuse -- Greece;Plato. -- Symposium;Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C;Symposium (Plato);Greece

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