Pick Your Poison
I’m developing a lecture on poisons and the imaginative ways they’ve been used, both fictionally and in real life. So browse below and see if anything strikes your fancy. In Ancient Rome, a poisoning plot that targeted powerful men was uncovered by a slave. She gave her information to an aedile, exposing a number of aristocratic women. These women were brought to the forum and were told the only way to prove their innocence was to drink the tinctures they’d created. Twenty women drank, and twenty women died. And so the “Conspiracy of Women” was born. Lindsey Davis has used these …
