Pharmakon
Subtitle: Plato, drug culture, and identity in ancient Athens
By: Michael A. Rinella.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739146866
Subjects: Plato; Plato; Drug abuse -- Greece; Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wine and the symposion; title: The symposion and the question of stasis; title: Plato's reformulation of the symposion; title: Drugs, epic poetry, and religion; title: Socrates accused; title: Socrates rehabilitated; title: Medicine, drugs, and somatic regimen; title: Magic, drugs, and noetic regimen; title: Speech, drugs, and discursive regimen; title: Philosophy's pharmacy; title: Towards a new ethics of the pharmakon.