499i
499 499
index
Page references for figures are indicated by f and for tables by t.abortifacients, herbal, Upper Paleolithic
hunter- gatherer, 13
accidents, in natural history, 370, 377n61
Achaeans, 230, 248n1
Adamah, 290
Adelard of Bath, Quaestiones Naturales, 307
Adonis
gardens, 195– 196
myrrh tree fruit god, 191– 192, 192f,
195– 196
Adyton fresco, 154– 155, 178n35
Aegean lands (2000– 1200 BCE), 138– 142
Bronze and Iron Ages major events of, 175n1,
176nn2t– 3t
burial in, of elite, 138– 139
gender and sacred trees in, 140– 142,
141 f, 143f
Minoan palace at Knossos in, 139– 140
Horns of Consecration at, 140,
140 f, 175n10
Minoans, 138
Mycenaeans, 138, 175n3
nature goddesses of, mystical plants and,
142– 181 (see also goddesses, Aegean
nat u re)Shaft Graves of Mycenae in, 138, 167, 180n59
rulers of, 167– 168
Thera in, 142, 175n12
volcanic eruption on, 139, 170
Aeneas, 230
Aeschylus’s Furies, 200– 201
Age of Eros, 380, 401n2
agriculture. See also specific topics
European spread of, via demic vs. cultural
diffusion, 71– 72
revolution in, 71
Ahuramazda, 126
Ainsworth, C., 348n58
Akathist hymns to Mary Theotokos, 281
Akkadian, 88
Akrotiri (Thera), 142, 175n12
Adyton fresco at, 154– 155, 178n35
Crocus Gatherers fresco in, Xeste 3, 147f, 150,
151 f– 152f
flower ritual frescoes of women in, 145– 155
(see also flower ritual frescoes of women,
in Crete)
presentation of the flowers in, Xeste 3,
152– 154, 153f
volcanic eruption on, 170– 172