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Given hemlock's high toxicity, too high amount would lead to quick death.<ref name="Inheritance" /><ref>''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey'' – [[A Night to Remember (Odyssey)|A Night to Remember]] </ref> During the Peloponnesian War, the [[Piracy|pirates]] who took over the island of [[Keos]] avoided the looming famine by forcing everyone over the age of 60 to drink a concoction made of hemlock, killing them.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey''</ref> | Given hemlock's high toxicity, too high amount would lead to quick death.<ref name="Inheritance" /><ref>''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey'' – [[A Night to Remember (Odyssey)|A Night to Remember]] </ref> During the Peloponnesian War, the [[Piracy|pirates]] who took over the island of [[Keos]] avoided the looming famine by forcing everyone over the age of 60 to drink a concoction made of hemlock, killing them.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey''</ref> | ||
Hemlock was also the poison used in the execution of [[Sokrates]] in 399 BCE.<ref>''Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece'' – [[Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece#The Agora of Athens|The Agora of Athens: "Judicial Court"]]</ref> | |||
===1st century BCE=== | ===1st century BCE=== | ||
During the 1st century BCE in [[Ptolemy XIII|Ptolemaic]] [[Egypt]], a poisoner [[Melina the Hibiscus]] used hemlock as part of the concoction which made the sacred [[crocodile]]s of [[Krokodilopolis]]' [[Temple of Sobek]] ill, irritable, and bleed from their eyes.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[Sobek's Tears]]</ref> | During the 1st century BCE in [[Ptolemy XIII|Ptolemaic]] [[Egypt]], a poisoner [[Melina the Hibiscus]] used hemlock along with [[hellebore]] as part of the concoction which made the sacred [[crocodile]]s of [[Krokodilopolis]]' [[Temple of Sobek]] ill, irritable, and bleed from their eyes.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[Sobek's Tears]]</ref> | ||
===Renaissance=== | ===Renaissance=== | ||
Revision as of 15:56, 1 April 2020
Hemlock is a highly poisonous plant, though it has been used medically since the antiquity.
History
5th century BCE
During the Peloponnesian War, the Spartan misthios Kassandra was asked by the healer Hippokrates to gather some hemlock for his elderly patient, Pentheus.[1]
Given hemlock's high toxicity, too high amount would lead to quick death.[1][2] During the Peloponnesian War, the pirates who took over the island of Keos avoided the looming famine by forcing everyone over the age of 60 to drink a concoction made of hemlock, killing them.[3]
Hemlock was also the poison used in the execution of Sokrates in 399 BCE.[4]
1st century BCE
During the 1st century BCE in Ptolemaic Egypt, a poisoner Melina the Hibiscus used hemlock along with hellebore as part of the concoction which made the sacred crocodiles of Krokodilopolis' Temple of Sobek ill, irritable, and bleed from their eyes.[5]
Renaissance
When the hidden blade of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, an Italian Assassin, was upgraded to include poison, the poison used was originally distillation of hemlock, though he later replaced it with henbane.[6]
American Revolution
The deadliness of hemlock was also utilized by the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton during the American Revolution, as his arsenal included small knives coated with a poison derived from the hemlock.[7]
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed: Renaissance
- Assassin's Creed III
- Assassin's Creed: Origins
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Inheritance Insurance
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – A Night to Remember
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
- ↑ Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – The Agora of Athens: "Judicial Court"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Origins – Sobek's Tears
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Renaissance
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III