10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALEXIPHARMAKON»
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alexipharmakon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
alexipharmakon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Revelation, Literature, and Community in Late Antiquity
... under the spell of our objects of thought.18 Greeks like Porphyry were
bewitched, possessed by this powerful discursive drug. With theurgy Iamblichus
offers an antidote, literally an alexipharmakon, or counter—drug, to offset the
poison.19 It ...
Philippa Townsend, Moulie Vidas, 2011
2
In Praise of Plato's Poetic Imagination
The pharmakon is reversible not only within its disparate definitions, but Plato
also names an alexipharmakon, a remedy or antidote. In Alcibiades I, Socrates
warns Alcibiades, after having discussed the importance of the Delphic
inscription ...
3
Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws
Once this text has lodged itself within his soul, it can function as an
alexipharmakon or 'antidote' against alternative (oppositional) discourses. The
law code, as an alexipharmakon, wards off dis— sonant discourses and implants
its univocal ...
Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, 2013
4
Soteriology and Mystic Aspects in the Cult of Cybele and ...
The verses of the Alexipharmakon in which Nicander showed the "ker- nophoros
priestess, minister of Rhea" rushing into the street and uttering "the terrible cry of
the Idaia"21 give the scholiast the chance to stress the "mystery" aspects of the ...
Giulia Sfameni Gasparro, 1985
5
Derrida and Deconstruction
Writing hasa precarious moral status.So,of course, do the poeticmyths of Homer
forwhich philosophyis saidtoprovide a countercharm (alexipharmakon) to their
spellbinding allurement (Republic X, 608a). The argument for the kinship
between ...
6
Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens
11 10—1180 CE), a late Byzantine poet and grammarian, “labels his account as
one of katharma (ritual cleansing); but squill as an acrid cultivator and widely
known herbal remedy for coughs, asthma, and alexipharmakon [antidote] when ...
7
The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient ...
While McCown thinks that this ending alexipharmakon is an error that the writer '
allows to creep in by mistake as he unintelligently copies from his book of recipes
', it fits perfectly with the beginning and frames the Ephesia Grammata verses in ...
Christopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink, 2013
8
The Hermeneutics of Original Argument: Demonstration, ...
... advanced as the alexipharmakon to ward off the merely persuasive sophistical
makros logos or long speech, be this "written or spoken, in meter or without," or
THE HERMENEUTICS OF ORIGINAL ARGUMENT even "sung by a rhapsodist.
P. Christopher Smith, 1998
9
Children's Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940
Participant: The herb is also the alchemical medicine, the alexipharmakon, the
antidote. Participant: The expression “There's no herb for it”122 also contains the
idea of the herb as a medicine. Professor Jung: Yes, the idea of healing is linked
...
Lorenz Jung, C. G. Jung, Maria Meyer-Grass, 2012
10
Dream Child: Creation and New Life in Dreams of Pregnant Women
Unicornus-preparations were considered the strongest alexipharmakon [antidote]
. One cup of unicorn would render any poison ineffectual. Unicornus was also
used for gynecological complications and in obstetrics. Sometimes the unicorn ...
Regina Abt, Irmgard Bosch, Vivienne MacKrell, 2000
