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A pharmakós (Greek: φαρμακός, plural pharmakoi) in Ancient Greek religion was the ritualistic sacrifice or exile of a human scapegoat or victim.
executed by the Delphians) and the pharmakos ritual. For example, Aesop is grotesquely deformed, as was the pharmakos in some traditions; and Aesop was...
such as a criminal, slave, or poor person and was referred to as the pharmakos, katharma or peripsima. There is a dichotomy, however, in the individuals...
setting out upon some important mission, such as a military conflict. Pharmakos refers to the ritualistic sacrifice of a human scapegoat. This practice...
March. This observance, which has aspects of scapegoat or ancient Greek pharmakos ritual, involved beating an old man dressed in animal skins and perhaps...
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toxicology), denoting any drug, while the third sense refers to the pharmakos ritual of human sacrifice "The specific which you have discovered is an...
and only for one person. It resembles the Greek pharmakos or scapegoat—though in contrast, pharmakos generally ejected a lowly member of the community...
cripples, or criminals from a community to ward off disaster (known as pharmakos), would at times involve publicly executing the chosen prisoner by throwing...
this, arguing that the earliest source for the pharmakos (the iambic satirist Hipponax) shows the pharmakos being beaten and stoned, but not executed. A...
in ancient Rome, and Walter Burkert saw it as a form of scapegoat or pharmakos ritual. By the 1st century BC, devotio could mean more generally "any...
"knowledge of" (cf. the etymology of pharmacy). Pharmakon is related to pharmakos, the ritualistic sacrifice or exile of a human scapegoat or victim in...
Retrieved 2009-04-04. Pendell, Dale (1995). "The Salvia divinorum chapter". Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft. San Francisco: Mercury House...
(φάρμακον), meaning "drug, poison, spell" (which is etymologically related to pharmakos). Separation of prescribing and dispensing, also called dispensing separation...
of which the unit purged itself through something like a scapegoat or pharmakos ritual. Germanicus, for instance, permitted mutinous soldiers to butcher...
significant to Athenians, especially if the baby was a boy. One ceremony was pharmakos, a ritual involving expelling a symbolic scapegoat such as a slave or...
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