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The Babylonian drugs (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Drugs and healers 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.05 Medicine and pharmacology 05.05.08 Drugs and healers Individuals identified as Assyrians 12 Assyrian Identity 12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times 12.02.01 Assyria and Assyrians in Neo- and Late Babylonian sources 12.02.01.02 Individuals identified as Assyrians	Keywords poison
Period 3rd century BCE Hellenistic Empires	Channel Hellenistic poets

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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, 42

Reiner, 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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