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Quote:There's even a six page paper at JSTOR about the opium addiction of Marcus Aurelius:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-5037(196101%2F03 )22%3A1%3C97%3ATOAOMA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
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The Opium Addiction of Marcus Aurelius
Thomas W. Africa
Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1961), pp. 97-102
I did'nt know that. But then, I've just started reading
Meditations and haven't gotten to that part yet. So far, it's pretty deep stuff. Maybe the opium had something to do with it?
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Smoking Romans were probably the ones who actually started the Great Fire of Nero's time. :lol:
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*a pair of Roman stable boys taking a toke break in the hay loft*
"Dude, Titus, where'd that joint go.....? I just lit it."
"Hey man, chill out. You're so feeling it. You should, like, take a nap...think I will too." Rolls over and goes to sleep, forgetting about the lit reefer in his hand. The rest is history
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When I was at uni I was told a story of a young academic who theorised that the small ceramic jars found on a Roman wreck were opium jars. (they looked like opium poppies) He was laughed at until the technology to sample their interiors was developed and confirmed that they contained opium.
I also read (somewhere) that opium was part of the Roman doctors kit for obvious pain relief.
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Quote:When I was at uni I was told a story of a young academic who theorised that the small ceramic jars found on a Roman wreck were opium jars. (they looked like opium poppies) He was laughed at until the technology to sample their interiors was developed and confirmed that they contained opium.
I also read (somewhere) that opium was part of the Roman doctors kit for obvious pain relief.
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Richard
Dioscurides mentions opium. pop historians lately came up with the idea Nero might have been an opium addict, and the stuff was certainly widely traded. That doesn't mean opium smoking, though. Opiates are notoriously versatile drugs - just about the only thing that won't work is absorption though the skin - and I suspect the Romans took their opium orally. It was certainly the preferred method of administering it in medieval and early modern Europe, cf 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' (not -Smoker).
PLus, archeologists can come up with interesting ideas. A certain type of vessel ("sphero-conical") found in the medieval Middle East has been called anything from a hand grenade to a container for carbonated drinks.
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Traces of opium and other narcotic substances have been founded inside iberian pottery.
As i have read somewhere, the consum of opium was in form of eaten small balls.
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Any information on where the Mosaic came from, and possible dating?
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Awesome! Thank you very much for looking into it.
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I doubt it being a pipe for smoking...it rather looks like a pipe for music.
Its a Phrygian Aulos, he holds two pipes and one has a horn-end.
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