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228 i Flora Unveiled 29. Ibid. 30. Theophrastus (1968), Enquiry into Plants, trans. A. Hort. Harvard University Press, Vol. I, B ...

i 229 229 229 9 Roman Assimilation of Greek Myths and Botany Just as Greece had earlier absorbed many of the cultural traditions ...

230 i Flora Unveiled fully realized gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon, with their exciting narratives and awe- inspiring ...

231 231 (a) Figure 9.1 Images of Ceres. A. Marble statue of Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus, depicted as the goddess Ceres, wea ...

232 i Flora Unveiled Liber and Libera were originally a Roman divine couple representing the fertility of men and women, respect ...

Roman and Greek Botany j 233 233 233 The goddess Venus does not appear to have been among the original Roman deities. She seems ...

234 i Flora Unveiled Ceres and Venus were often conflated with Flora because, as she explains in Fasti V, her dominion over flow ...

Roman and Greek Botany j 235 235 235 Here, Ovid speaking through Flora recognizes the developmental relationship between flowers ...

236 i Flora Unveiled “pollinated” Hera with the magic f lower, just as Babylonian farmers hand- pollinated their female date tre ...

237 237 (a) (b) Figure 9.3 Greek and Roman images of Cybele. A. Greek statue (~350 bce) of Kybele with a patera (dish), tympanon ...

238 i Flora Unveiled into Rome’s pantheon, and she assumed many of Demeter’s attributes. In his satirical novel The Golden Ass, ...

Roman and Greek Botany j 239 239 239 The floral frieze below the Tellus panel extends around the entire structure, making it the ...

240 i Flora Unveiled Each of the plants and animals is rich with symbolic significance. However, the general impression one has ...

Roman and Greek Botany j 241 241 241 Although Bacchus is the Roman god of wine, grapes themselves are identified with the breast ...

242 i Flora Unveiled [I] t is stated that in a palm- grove of natural growth the female trees do not produce if there are no mal ...

Roman and Greek Botany j 243 243 243 In another chapter on “chaplet flowers”— flowers used for garlands and wreaths— Pliny expli ...

244 i Flora Unveiled universal understanding of nature and that only the limitations of time had prevented him from writing it a ...

Roman and Greek Botany j 245 245 245 say that both the male and female produce progeny, but they differ in their characteristics ...

246 i Flora Unveiled is the cause of plants under a certain disposition of circumstances; for in the case of an animal when the ...

Roman and Greek Botany j 247 247 247 The Degeneration of Olive Trees as Proof of Original Sin As discussed in Chapter 8, because ...