Plato, drug culture, and identity in ancient Athens (book)

Michael A. Rinella, Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens (Lexington Books, forthcoming May 2010).

Table of Contents for Pharmakon: 

• Introduction - The Pharmakon, Ecstasy, and Identity 

Part I. Plato and the Politics of Intoxication 

• Chapter 1. Wine and the Symposion 

• Chapter 2. The Symposion and the Question of Stasis 

• Chapter 3. Plato's Reformulation of the Symposion 

Part II: The Pharmakon and the Defense of Philosophy 

• Chapter 4. Drugs, Epic Poetry, and Religion 

• Chapter 5. Socrates Accused 

• Chapter 6. Socrates Rehabilitated 

Part III. Plato through the Prism of the Pharmakon 

• Chapter 7. Medicine, Drugs, and Somatic Regimen 

• Chapter 8. Magic, Drugs, and Noetic Regimen 

• Chapter 9. Speech, Drugs, and Discursive Regimen 

• Chapter 10. Philosophy's Pharmacy 

• Afterword: Towards a New Ethics of the Pharmakon