Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Ancient Greece and Rome by... - 9781138216082

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Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Ancient Greece and RomeRetail Therapy\nAuthor(s): Laurence Totelin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138216082, 978-1138216082\nSynopsis\nThis book examines Greek and Roman pharmacology in its mercantile dimensions, studying the people who were involved in the trade, the places where they worked, and the consumers whom they tried to attract through promises of health.\n\nIn the ancient Mediterranean, selling pharmacological substances and preparations meant big business. Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Ancient Greece and Rome draws upon a wealth of ancient medical literature and artefacts to reconstruct this ancient pharmacological trade, focusing on the first two and a half centuries of the Common Era but often touching upon other periods. It discusses the strategies that actors in the trade deployed to advertise their goods, the accusations of fraud and mercantilism that wer.