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The Babylonian drugs (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



12 Assyrian Identity



Keywords
poison
Period
3rd century BCE
Hellenistic Empires
Channel
Hellenistic poets


Text
If he continues to grieve me, I call on the Fates as my witness, soon he shall knock at the portals of Hades, such sinister drugs I keep in my medicine chest, which I learned about from an Assyrian.


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Theocritus, Idylls 2.160-162

Bibliography

Reiner 1995, 42Reiner, Erica. “Astral Magic in Babylonia.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 85.4 (1995) 1-150. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]

Amar Annus


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