1st Edition
Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Ancient Greece and Rome Retail Therapy
Introduction; 1. Pharmacological actors in the marketplace; 2. Procuring and storing simple drugs; 3. Compound remedies: Written recipes and their transmission; 4. Stamping, branding, and advertising ancient remedies; 5. Stretching out the pepper: drug adulteration and adulteration by means of drugs in antiquity; 6. ‘Hard’ and ‘soft’ pharmacological consumers in the Graeco-Roman world; 7. The hands of the gods: Pharmaka and divine powers; Conclusions.
Biography
Laurence Totelin is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University, where she carries out research on Greek and Roman pharmacy, botany, and gynaecology. Her key publications include Ancient Botany, with Gavin Hardy (2016) and A Cultural History of Medicine in Antiquity (2020).
