Players/The Hillman Pharmakeia Thesis

The Scholar — Credentialed Base + Commercial Bifurcation

Philology PhD + Bacteriology MS + Fringe Publishing + 'Lady Babylon' Podcast Phase

Academic trajectory: BA Classics Arizona leads to MS Bacteriology UW-Madison leads to MA + PhD Classics UW-Madison. 2004 dissertation: *Representations of Pharmacy in Roman Literature from Cato to Ovid*. Interdisciplinary: biological science + classical philology.
Institutional disputes: 2015 Saint Mary's University Minnesota adjunct contract non-renewed after Euripides Medea production with 8-foot phallus prop + subsequent student harassment complaints. Public court documents (Jan 2019 depositions). Hillman framed as 'anti-intellectual censorship of historically accurate classical religious practice'; university operated under standard institutional boundary-maintenance.

Publication Record reveals severe split into two tiers: 2008 *The Chemical Muse* (Thomas Dunne / St.

2024+ 'Lady Babylon' podcast phase: Danny Jones Podcast, TrueAnon, Julian Dorey, Ancient Greek. Reaches millions of viewers. Gap between peer-reviewed work + podcast claims is epistemically massive.

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