Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization
by
D. C.A. Hillman, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
"The last wild frontier of classical studies." ---The Times (UK)
The Chemical Muse uncovers decades of misdirection and obfuscation to reveal the history of widespread drug use in Ancient Rome and Greece. In the city-states that gave birth to Western civilization, drugs were an everyday...