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[[File:ACOd-Hemlock.jpg|thumb|250px|Hemlock growing in 5th century BCE Greece]] | [[File:ACOd-Hemlock.jpg|thumb|250px|Hemlock growing in 5th century BCE Greece]] | ||
'''Hemlock''' is a highly | '''Hemlock''' is a highly [[poison]]ous plant though it has been used medically since antiquity. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===5th century BCE=== | ===5th century BCE=== | ||
Given hemlock's high toxicity, ingestion too much of it 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 name="Odyssey site">[https://assassinscreed.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/odyssey/map/paradise-islands "''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey'' – Worlds: Paradise Islands"]. ''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey'', Ubisoft. Accessed 20 May 2020.</ref> At another point during the same conflict, the [[Sparta]]n ''[[Mercenary|misthios]]'' [[Kassandra]] was asked by the [[Doctor|healer]] [[Hippokrates]] to gather some hemlock for his elderly patient, [[Pentheus (Thebian)|Pentheus]].<ref name="Inheritance">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[Inheritance Insurance]]</ref> | |||
Given hemlock's high toxicity, too | |||
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> | 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=== | ||
In the 1st century BCE, a woman by the name of [[Melina the Hibiscus]] used hemlock along with [[hellebore]] to concoct a poison which caused the sacred [[crocodile]]s of [[Krokodilopolis]]' [[Temple of Sobek]] to become ill, irritable, and bleed from their eyes.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[Sobek's Tears]]</ref> | |||
===Renaissance=== | ===Renaissance=== | ||
When the [[ | When the [[Hidden Blade]] of [[Italian Brotherhood of Assassins|Italian Assassin]] [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] was upgraded to include [[Poison Blade|poison]], the poison used was originally a distillation of hemlock, but he later replaced it with {{Wiki|Hyoscyamus niger|henbane}}.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance]]''</ref> | ||
===American Revolution=== | ===American Revolution=== | ||
Revision as of 00:09, 21 May 2020
Hemlock is a highly poisonous plant though it has been used medically since antiquity.
History
5th century BCE
Given hemlock's high toxicity, ingestion too much of it 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] At another point during the same conflict, the Spartan misthios Kassandra was asked by the healer Hippokrates to gather some hemlock for his elderly patient, Pentheus.[1]
Hemlock was also the poison used in the execution of Sokrates in 399 BCE.[4]
1st century BCE
In the 1st century BCE, a woman by the name of Melina the Hibiscus used hemlock along with hellebore to concoct a poison which caused the sacred crocodiles of Krokodilopolis' Temple of Sobek to become ill, irritable, and bleed from their eyes.[5]
Renaissance
When the Hidden Blade of Italian Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze was upgraded to include poison, the poison used was originally a distillation of hemlock, but 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]
Behind the scenes
The same model is used for both hemlock and moly in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.
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 – Worlds: Paradise Islands". Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Ubisoft. Accessed 20 May 2020.
- ↑ 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