A Note on The Death of Socrates

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 608-610

  Sullivan, Janet ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85012486908     PISSN: 00098388     EISSN: 14716844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cq/51.2.608     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. C. Gill, CQ 23 (1973), 25-8.
2. Pl. Phd. 115d3-4, 118a3-4.
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4. A. S. F. Gow and A. F. Scholfield (edd.), Nicander: The Poems and Poetical Fragments (Cambridge, 1953), 186-94.
5. Kingsbury (n. 3), 65.
6. See too And. 3.10; Ar. Ran. 122ff.; Lys. 12.17, 18.24; Xen. Hell. 2.3.56; R. J. Bonner, ‘The use of hemlock for capital punishment’, in Athenian Studies Presented to William Scott Ferguson (New York, 1973), 299-302; T. A. Henry, The Plant Alkaloids (London, 1924), 29ff.; D. M. MacDowell, The Law in Classical Athens (New York, 1978), 255; J. Doull, C. D. Klaassen, and M. O. Amdur (edd.), Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons (New York, 19802), 584-90; L. M. Haddad, M. W. Shannon, and J. F. Winchester, Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose (Philadelphia, 1998 3), 381, 38 3.
7. Gow and Scholfield (n. 4), 186-94.
8. Thphr. HP., 1.5.3, 6.2.9, 7.6.4, 9.8.3, 9.15.8.
9. See Thphr. H.P 9.16.8-9, 9.20.1.
10. I owe this suggestion to CQ's anonymous referee.
11. See too Bonner (n. 6), passim; 122-3. Although Gill (n. 1) suggests that Aristophanes is minimizing the choking symptoms of hemlock ‘to sharpen the contrast with hanging’, Heracles dismisses the former method of getting to Hades in terms which imply both that it was used frequently by suicides at the close of the fifth century and that it was not an intrinsically and extremely unpleasant way in which to meet death