Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens by Rinella, Michael A.

Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780739146873)

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Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens by Rinella, Michael A.

Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens

$56.99
Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens by Rinella, Michael A.

Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens

$56.99
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Michael A. Rinella
ISBN-10: 0739146874
ISBN-13: 9780739146873
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 11/23/2011
Pages: 358
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.01w x 1.03d
By Michael A. Rinella
By Michael A. Rinella
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Michael A. Rinella holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, SUNY, and he is currently the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor, Philosophy, at the State University of New York, Potsdam.

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