Medism
Medism can refer to:
- in ancient Greece, imitating or having sympathies or siding with the Persians (the ethnonym 'Mede' was often used by the Greeks of the Persians, although it strictly speaking denoted another Iranian tribe, the Medes). It was considered a crime in many ancient Greek city-states.
Themistocles the Athenian was ostracized for Medism
Pausanias, the Lacedaimonian hegemon of the Hellenic League was accused of Medism by other member states, an accusation which allowed Athens to seize control of the league.
Herodotus, mentions state medism of Aegina, Thessaly, Argos, Thebes and other Boeotians)
- a specific form of Hypnotism mixing hypnosis and meditation. 'Medism' or 'Neo-oriental Hypnotism' attempt to spiritualise the materialistic and mechanical form of occidental Hypnotism by bringing it in line with oriental mysticism.
References
- Medism: Greek collaboration with Achaemenid Persia by David Frank Graf
- Medism in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C. by Helen Harriet Thompson
- “The Medism of Thessaly,” Henry Dickinson Westlake
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