Hemlock
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