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Poison Garden #2- Hemlock, Socrates' Punishment


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Join us for the second in our Poison Garden mini-series. This episode focuses on the intersection of poison and punishment, a central moment in the history of philosophy that echoes throughout time.    

Sources & Reference Material: 

  • The Internet Classics Archive | Phaedo by Plato  (Classical account of Socrates’ final hours.) 

  • Xenophon's The Apology eBook | PDF | Project Gutenberg | Apology (Plato) 

  • Mayor, A. (2009). The Poison King: Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy. (Context on ancient poisons.) The Poison King | Princeton University Press 

  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. “Conium maculatum: Toxicity Profile.” Conium maculatum L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science 

  • Acute Intoxication With Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum) - PMC 

  • https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/99a8/2de0df0bb09c608633f964d506b64ff8a2f6.pdf 

  • Socrates - Wikipedia 


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