| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 325 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Plato
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Plato. Symposium.
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| SUBJECT |
Plato fast |
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Symposium (Plato) fast |
| Subject |
Drug abuse -- Greece
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Civilization
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Drug abuse
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
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| Subject |
Greece
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021679745 |
| ISBN |
9781461634010 |
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1461634016 |
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