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Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

By: Alan Sumler

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Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

By: Alan Sumler

Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World considers the psychotropic plants used in the ancient world and ancient attitudes towards intoxication. Alan Sumler surveys primary Greek and Roman sources for noteworthy mentions of ancient intoxicants like hellebore, mandrake, deadly nightshade, thorn apple, opium poppy, cannabis, wine, and other substances and reveals how psychoactive drugs were used in ancient Greek and Roman religion, medicine, magic, artistic inspiration, and recreation. Interpreted through the lens of modern-day scholarship from Classics, philosophy, and ethnobotany, the primary sources illuminate how commonplace psychotropic plants and drugs were in the ancient Greek and Roman world and—given different contexts for psychotropic drug usage—what attitudes these societies held about the appropriateness of intoxication.

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1666920150

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9781666920154

Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

By: Alan Sumler

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Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

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Did the ancient Greeks and Romans use psychoactive cannabis? Scholars say that hemp was commonplace in the ancient world, but there is no consensus on cannabis usage. According to botany, hemp and cannabis are the same plant and thus the ancient Greeks and Romans must have used it in their daily lives. Cultures parallel to the ancient Greeks and Romans, like the Egyptians, Scythians, and Hittites, were known to use cannabis in their medicine, religion and recreational practices. Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World surveys the primary references to cannabis in ancient Greek and Roman texts and covers emerging scholarship about the plant in the ancient world. Ancient Greek and Latin medical texts from the Roman Empire contain the most mentions of the plant, where it served as an effective ingredient in ancient pharmacy. Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World focuses on the ancient rationale behind cannabis and how they understood the plant’s properties and effects, as well as its different applications. For the first time ever, this book provides a sourcebook with the original ancient Greek and Latin, along with translations, of all references to psychoactive cannabis in the Greek and Roman world. It covers the archaeology of cannabis in the ancient world, including amazing discoveries from Scythian burial sites, ancient proto-Zoroastrian fire temples, Bronze Age Chinese burial sites, as well as evidence in Greece and Rome. Beyond cannabis, Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World also explores ancient views on medicine, pharmacy, and intoxication.

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142

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Lexington Books

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1498560369

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9781498560368

Texas Blues

The Rise of a Contemporary Sound

By: Alan B. Govenar

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Texas Blues

The Rise of a Contemporary Sound

By: Alan B. Govenar

Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world. Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs—many never before published—Texas Blues provides comprehensive and authoritative documentation of a musical tradition that has changed contemporary music. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Alan Govenar here builds on his previous groundbreaking work documenting these musicians and their style with the stories of 110 of the most influential artists and their times. From Blind Lemon Jefferson and Aaron “T-Bone” Walker of Dallas, to Delbert McClinton in Fort Worth, Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins in East Texas, Baldemar (Freddie Fender) Huerta in South Texas, and Stevie Ray Vaughan in Austin, Texas Blues shows the who, what, where, and how of blues in the Lone Star State.

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Texas A&M University Press

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158544605X

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9781585446056

Scotland

By: Neil Wilson,Alan Murphy

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Scotland

By: Neil Wilson,Alan Murphy

Scotland's patchwork of sweeping mountains and lochs, craggy coastline and lively towns deserves to be explored and savored. "Lonely Planet Scotland" includes sustainable accommodations, restaurant reviews and guides, and off-the-beaten-path excursions.

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1741047250

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Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

By: Alan Sumler

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Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

Texas Blues

Texas Blues

Scotland

Scotland

Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

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