Index j 527527 527
Demeter and Persephone, 164, 189, 190,
208n15, 461n78
Dryope (poplar tree), 193
Horae (the hours), 193
Leucothoe (Boswellia sacra), 191
Lotis (water nymph), 193
metamorphoses, 191
Mintha (mint plant), 191
Myrrha or Smyrna (Myrrh tree), 191, 192f
Myrrhina (Little Myrtle), 191– 192
Nausicaa, 193
Thallo (one who flowers), 193
Zephyrus, 190
vegetation deities, Greek youthful male,
195– 197
Adonis (myrrh tree fruit), 191– 192, 192f,
195– 196
Dionysus, 195
Hyacinthus, 196, 197
Hyakinthos, 195
Narcissus, 196
Tammuz (Dumuzi), 195
Venus, 233– 234
son of, Aeneas, 230
Venus figurines (Vénus impudique)
as female sexuality
icons, 12t, 18– 19, 18f, 20f
textile discovery and clothing
of, 20– 22, 21f
Venus of Hohle Fels, 19, 20f
Venus of Willendorf, 18f, 19
Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erk-
lären (Goethe), 446
Vesalius, Andrea, 7, 7f
Vienna Dioscorides, 253– 261, 255f– 260f. See also
Juliana Anicia Codex
Virgil, 240, 247
virgin birth, flowers and, 2
Virgin Mary. See Christianity; Mary, Virgin
von Linné, Carl. See Linnaeus, Carolus
von Näegeli, Karl, 468, 470f
von Sachs, Julius, 350, 356, 409, 477– 478
on Koelreuter’s asexualism, 458n8
vulva
Magdalenian depictions of, 25
plant and, Upper Paleolithic, 26, 26f
Upper Paleolithic depictions of, 22– 23, 22f
in Venus figurines, 25Wacholder, B. Z., 243, 249n30
Wahshiyya, Ibn, Nabatean Agriculture,
299– 300, 319n31
Wakefield, Patricia, An Introduction to Botany,
in a Series of Familiar Letters, 392
walled gardens
hortus conclusus and, 280– 281, 282,
285n33, 293
women as, 280– 281, 282, 285n33, 293
Warka vase, 89– 90, 91f, 131nn14– 16
Warren, Peter, 145, 159– 160
Weiditz, Hans, 314
“Weieberliebe” (Goethe), 441– 442
wheat. See also specific types
domestication of, 38– 40, 38f– 39f,
40n23, 65n20
in Fertile Crescent, 36, 65n20
spikelet disarticulation in, wild vs.
domesticated, 38– 40, 38f– 39f, 40n23
wheeled vehicles, 81
The White Goddess (Graves), 284n15
Wiegmann, A. F., 463– 465
William of Aquitaine, poetry of, 287– 288
wind eggs, 341
Withering, William, The Botanical
Arrangement of All the Vegetables
Naturally Growing in Great Britain,
391– 392
Wolff, Caspar Friedrich, Theoria
Generationis, 448
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 411– 412
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,
408, 427n12
women- associated industries, early Neolithic
Europe, 69
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of
Existence (Qazwini), 278–279
wool, Chalcolithic, 82
writers on agriculture, Roman, 240– 246
Cato the Elder, 240
Columella, 240– 241
Nicolaus of Damascus and De Plantis,
243– 246, 249nn30– 34, 251, 372
Pliny and Historia
Natura, 241– 243
Varro, 240– 241
Virgil, 240, 247
Wylie, R. B., 398, 400f