The Greek Plant World in Myth, Art, and Literature by Hellmut Baumann

The Greek Plant World in Myth, Art, and Literature

Hellmut Baumann with Eldwyth R. Stearn (Translator), William T. Stearn (Translator)

252 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

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Draws on primary sources such as Homer, Herodotus, and Plato, and on many later works on botany, history, philology, and archaeology to explore how the ancient Greeks perceived and used plants. Considers the landscape, cults and myths, medicine an...

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