Eye witness account of the death of the Greek philosopher ... The philosopher was taken to the near-by jail where his sentence would be carried out. Athenian law prescribed death by drinking a cup of poison hemlock. Socrates would be his own executioner.
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Conium (pronounced /koʊˈnaɪ.əm/ or /ˈkoʊniəm/ ) is a genus of two species of highly poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to Europe and the ...
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The trial of Socrates refers to the trial and the subsequent execution of the Athenian philosopher Socrates in 399 BC. Socrates was tried and convicted by the courts of democratic Athens on a charge...
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Steve Martin is so good. I'd never seen this, but I can see this... especially at the end. "You guys are just gonna sit and STARE. 'Socrates, what is truth? Socrates, what is justice? Socrates, what should I order?' and not ONCE did anyone EVER say, 'Socrates, hemlock is poisonous!'" BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
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There are two varieties of hemlock: poison hemlock (the one used to assassinate Socrates) and water-hemlock. In spite of its more innocuous sounding name, water-hemlock is just as deadly as its famous relative. Although they are related, water hemlock and poison hemlock act on the body in very different ways.
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It is evident that he crushed the hemlock, for when Socrates asked him to 'prepare' the poison, he used a form of the verb tribô, which means to crush, as in a mortar. ... Poison hemlock is in fact a unique plant, with chemical properties different from any other of the thousands of members of the Umbelliferae family.
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The last days of Socrates: his death by drinking Hemlock as related by Plato in the Phaedo ...   As related in the Crito Socrates is imprisoned awaiting the time when a sacred ship returns from Delos as this will lift a prohibition on the completion of the sentence he faces - the drinking of the fatal poison - Hemlock.
www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/phaedo.html
Cup of Poison ... Socrates' execution requires that he drink a cup of hemlock. Found in Europe and parts of Asia, hemlock is a poisonous herb that looks a great deal like parsley. You would not, however, want this "fool's-parsley" dressing the side of your dinner plate!
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Hemlock (Conium maculatum L. ... Hemlock (Conium maculatum L. Umbelliferae) has long been known as a poisonous plant. Toxicity is due to a group of piperidine alkaloids of which the representative members are coniine and gamma-coniceine. The latter is the more toxic and is the first formed biosynthetically.
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POISON HEMLOCK (PDF File)
Economic Impact: The toxic qualities of poison hemlock have been known and documented throughout history. It is allegedly the plant used to poison the Greek philosopher Socrates in 339 B.C. At that time, a poison hemlock potion was considered to be a "humane" method of execution for criminals.
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