This post is about poison because I really like murder TV shows. I wanted to connect my experiences solving murders to why teachers want to torture us with writing. Greeks used hemlock to kill their prisoners (specifically Socrates in 399 bc!!!!). For an adult 8 leaves of the plant is fatal. It causes paralysis--the mind is awake, but the body doesn’t respond and eventually the respiratory system shuts down. Another way the Greeks delivered the poison of hemlock is by feeding their victims the meat of larks. This worked because the larks ate a lot of hemlock and it made their flesh poisonous. There is a myth about Hercules using venom of Hydra monster to poison his arrows. Some historians now think that Alexander the Great was poisoned...!
Sources:
http://listverse.com/2012/12/02/10-poisons-used-to-kill-people
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/poison-good-bad-and-deadly-002165
http://io9.com/5942161/the-deadliest-poisons-in-history-and-why-people-stopped-using-them#
Sources:
http://listverse.com/2012/12/02/10-poisons-used-to-kill-people
http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/poison-good-bad-and-deadly-002165
http://io9.com/5942161/the-deadliest-poisons-in-history-and-why-people-stopped-using-them#