Pharmapolitics and the Early Roman Expansion: Gender, Slavery, and Ecology in 331 BCE

IF 0.9 2区 历史学 0 CLASSICS
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
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Abstract

This article reinterprets an incident that Livy (8.18.4–11) and derivative later sources place in the year 331 BCE: a wave of poisonings whose perpetrators are brought to light after an enslaved woman contacts a Roman magistrate. Its main objectives are to show that the incident is best understood in connection with the transmission of novel—or perceived as novel—pharmacological knowledge, and in conjunction with shifts in the institution of slavery at Rome that were set in motion by the Republic’s expansion; that a key figure in the mythological encoding of this transmission was the legendary Circe; and that moving away from previous scholarship’s concern with the matronae alleged to have carried out the poisonings and focusing instead on “la servant délatrice” (Jean-Marie Pailler) opens up new corridors into the cultural history of this period.
药理学与早期罗马扩张:公元前331年的性别、奴隶制和生态
这篇文章重新解释了Livy(8.18.4-11)和后来的衍生来源在公元前331年发生的一件事:一名被奴役的妇女与罗马治安官接触后,一系列投毒事件的肇事者被曝光。它的主要目的是表明,人们最好将这一事件与新的——或被视为新的——药理学知识的传播联系起来,并与共和国扩张引发的罗马奴隶制制度的转变联系起来;传说中的Circe是这种传播的神话编码中的一个关键人物;摆脱了之前学术界对据称实施下毒的女护士长的关注,转而关注“仆人délatrice”(让-马里·派勒饰),为这一时期的文化史开辟了新的通道。
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