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#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Language Was Used to Understand Wine?
The word Oynos in ancient Greek does show up in the New Testament, but there was another word to describe wine. The word used for wine is Pharmakon, which obviously gives us the word pharmacy. In Greek, a Greek speaker would actually use the word drug to refer to wine. They understood wine as this compound beverage, a drug against grief,. A medicinal elixir that could either harm or heal.
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