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Farmakeia
Pharmakeia
Pharmacea
Poison, Sorcery
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PHARMAKEIA (or Pharmacea) was the Naiad Nymph of a poisonous spring near the River Ilissos of Athens (southern Greece).
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ENCYCLOPEDIA
PHARMACEIA (Pharmakeia), the nymph of a well with poisonous powers, near the river Ilissus, in Attica; she is described as a playmate of Oreithyia (Plat. Phaed. p. 229, c.; Timaeus, Ixr. Plat. s.v.).
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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"Phaidros: I should like to know, Sokrates, whether the place is not somewhere here at which Boreas is said to have carried off Oreithyia from the banks of the Ilissos? ....
Sokrates: Oreithyia was playing with Pharmakeia, when a northern gust carried her over the neighbouring rocks; and this being the manner of her death, she was said to have been carried away by Boreas." - Plato, Phaedrus 229
Sources:
- Plato, Phaedrus - Greek Philosophy C4th BC
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