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Reappraising the Homeric Moly: Mediterranean Geophytes as Antidotes to Antimuscarinic Intoxication in the Odyssey

2026-07-30

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<h4>Background: </h4> In 1983 Plaitakis and Duvoisin identified Homeric moly with Galanthus nivalis L., and read the Circe episode as the earliest recorded use of an anticholinesterase against antimuscarinic poisoning. The identification held for four decades. Recent multidisciplinary criticism has now put its philological and biogeographical foundations in doubt. <h4>Objective:</h4> To ask what survives of the ph...

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Literature Corpus work: 018f09cb-7b57-5b35-9568-d9db1538e87d
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202607.2229.v1

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