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Author Rinella, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)

Title Pharmakon [electronic resource] : Plato, drug culture, and identity in ancient Athens / Michael A. Rinella.

Imprint Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.

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Description xxix, 325 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-309) and indexes.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Plato.
Plato. Symposium.
Drug abuse -- Greece.
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780739146866 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739146866 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781461634010 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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