Pharmapolitics and the Early Roman Expansion: Gender, Slavery, and Ecology in 331 BCE
Classical Antiquity, ISSN: 0278-6656, Vol: 42, Issue: 1, Page: 159-194
2023
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This article reinterprets an incident that Livy (8.18.4-11) and derivative later sources place in the year 331 BCE: a wave of poisonings whose perpetrators are brought to light after an enslaved woman contacts a Roman magistrate. Its main objectives are to show that the incident is best understood in connection with the transmission of novel-or perceived as novel-pharmacological knowledge, and in conjunction with shifts in the institution of slavery at Rome that were set in motion by the Republic's expansion; that a key figure in the mythological encoding of this transmission was the legendary Circe; and that moving away from previous scholarship's concern with the matronae alleged to have carried out the poisonings and focusing instead on “la servant délatrice” (Jean-Marie Pailler) opens up new corridors into the cultural history of this period.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85160925266&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ca.2023.42.1.159; https://online.ucpress.edu/ca/article/42/1/159/196129/Pharmapolitics-and-the-Early-Roman-Expansion; https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ca.2023.42.1.159; https://online.ucpress.edu/ca/article-abstract/42/1/159/196129/Pharmapolitics-and-the-Early-Roman-Expansion?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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