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Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens
Michael A. Rinella
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| #1816098 in Books | 2011-11-23 | 2011-11-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.07 x.99 x6.08l,1.17 | File type: PDF | 358 pages||5 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| A huge advance in entheogen history scholarship|By Michael Hoffman|This is a long, densely informative book, with thoroughly documented scholarly references, and it ventures into an area that has been little explored but badly needs more coverage.
The book is too substantial; it's daunting to review, but reviews are needed, such as describing what each chapter covers||Beginning from the most thorough review of classical intoxicants, Rinella applies his findings in detail to many Platonic texts. His results certainly have great significance for students of Plato, but also for the history of medicine and of classical civiliza
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 ancie...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens | Michael A. Rinella. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
