Hemlock

Hemlock (Conium maculatum) is a highly poisonous plant, though it has been used medically since antiquity.
==History==
===5th century BCE===
Given hemlock's high toxicity, ingesting too much of it leads to a quick death.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Too Much of a Good ThingAssassin's Creed: Odyssey – A Night to Remember During the Peloponnesian War, the pirates who took over the island of Keos avoided the looming famine by forcing everyone over the age of 60 to drink a concoction made of hemlock, killing them."Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Worlds: Paradise Islands". Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Ubisoft. Accessed 20 May 2020. At another point during the same conflict, the healer Hippokrates asked the misthios Kassandra to gather some hemlock for his elderly patient Pentheus. Hemlock was also used to execute Sokrates in 399 BCE.Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – Tours: The Agora of Athens: "Judicial Court"
===1st century BCE===
In the 1st century BCE, the scientist Melina used hemlock and hellebore to concoct a poison which caused the sacred crocodiles of Krokodilopolis' Temple of Sobek to become ill, irritable, and bleed from their eyes.Assassin's Creed: Origins – Sobek's Tears
===Renaissance===
When the Italian Assassin Ezio Auditore upgraded his Hidden Blade include poison, it originally used distilled hemlock, but he later replaced it with .Assassin's Creed: Renaissance
===American Revolution===
The deadliness of hemlock was also utilized by the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton during the American Revolution, as his arsenal included small knives coated with a poison derived from the hemlock.Assassin's Creed III
==Behind the scenes==
The same model is used for both hemlock and moly in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Renaissance
*Assassin's Creed III
*Assassin's Creed: Origins
*Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
*Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece
==References==
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