Pharmakon : Plato, drug culture, and identity in ancient Athens / Michael A. Rinella.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 325 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781461634010
- 1461634016
- 184 22
- B395
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309) and indexes.
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.
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Pharmakon traces the emergence of an ethical discourse in ancient Greece, one centered on states of psychological ecstasy. In the dialogues of Plato, philosophy is itself characterized as a pharmakon, one superior to a large number of rival occupations, each of which laid claim to their powers being derived from, connected with, or likened to, a pharmakon. Accessible yet erudite, Pharmakon is one of the most comprehensive examinations of the place of intoxicants in ancient thought yet written.
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