empedocles, sorates, hippocrates, peloponnesian war, plague, plato, aristotle, diocles,
alexander becomes king of macedon, founding of alexandria in egypt, death of
alexander
Panacea - ANSWER goddess of healing ('all healing')
universal remedy
Eileithyia - ANSWER goddess of childbirth
Helen of Sparta - ANSWER daughter of Zeus
used drugs to quiet all pain, anger, and silence emotions
given by egyptian woman - polydamna
drugs can be good or harmful
Paeon - ANSWER physician to gods
applies pharmaka to wounds of Ares
egyptians = race of this god
Nyx and Erebus - ANSWER night and darkness
have twins Hypnos and Thanatos
Hypnos - ANSWER god of sleep
winged youth that touches forehead or pours on sleep inducing liquid
Thanatos - ANSWER god of death
get euthanasia form this
also winged youth
, Morpheus - ANSWER God of dreams
son of Hypnos
morphine comes form this
appears as shape changer (morphae = shape/form)
important in cult of Asclepius
Ovid - ANSWER Metamorphoses: writes about hypnos - "we watch closely over those
who sleep"
psyche - ANSWER mind, soul, spirit etc
logos - ANSWER reason/plan
pharmakon - ANSWER poison, charm, drug, used in spells etc.
Thales of Miletus - ANSWER early 6th century BCE
water is the fundamental substance
Miletus is where natural thinking took off - on major trade route
one of the 'Seven Sages'
'Father of Science"
Anaximenes of Miletus - ANSWER mid 6th century BCE
air is fundamental substance
rarified into fire and condensed into wind etc.
Xenophanes of Colophon - ANSWER mid 6th century BCE
everything governed by a single deity that is immovable and eternal
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