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Greece. See also specific topics
alphabet adoption in, 183
causation- based cosmologies in, 182
citizen assemblies in, democratic, 183
Dark Age on, 182
government of, 12th c. BCE, 182– 183
Hippocratic School of, sex ranking by, 6
logic of, faith in, 210
Greek herbals, early, 252– 253, 283nn1– 2
Greek mythology, plant, 182– 209. See also
specific topics
Adonis (myrrh tree fruit), 191– 192, 192f, 195– 196
Aeschylus’s Furies in, as agricultural
goddesses, 200– 201
Aphrodite (flowers), 190
Aphrodite’s garden and Arteris’s garland,
189– 190
Carpo (bringer of food), 193
Carpus (fruit), 190
Chloris (spring flowers), 190
Daphne (laurel), 193, 194f
Demeter and Persephone, 164, 190, 208n15
Demeter/ Kore and Eleusinian Mysteries,
185– 189, 188f, 208n15, 230
Dionysus, 195
Dionysus/ Bacchus (god of wine and ecstasy),
197– 199, 198f, 199f
Dryope (poplar tree), 193
female vegetation deities in, minor, 190– 194
hermaphrodism and Hermaphrodite,
201– 207, 205f– 207f
He siod ’s Theogony and genealogy of Gods,
183– 185, 185f, 186f
Horae (the hours), 193
Hyacinthus, 196, 197
Hyakinthos, 195
Leucothoe (Boswellia sacra), 191
Lotis (water nymph), 193
male vegetation deities, youthful, 195– 197
metamorphoses of, 191
Mintha (mint plant), 191
Myrrha or Smyrna (Myrrh tree), 191, 192f
Myrrhina (Little Myrtle), 191– 192
Narcissus, 196
Nausicaa, 193
Tammuz (Dumuzi), 195
Thallo (one who flowers), 193
Zephyrus, 190Greene, Edward Lee, 317– 318, 352
Grew, Nehemiah, 3, 323– 324, 346– 347n30,
355, 493
The Anatomy of Plants Begun, 324, 330
The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun,
328– 330, 346n17
finances of, on botany vs. medicine
work, 347n34
plant anatomy research of, 337, 347n34
transsexual attire of, 330– 337, 334f– 335f,
346– 347n30
Guide for the Perplexed (Maimonides), 300
gymnosperms, 465, 484. See also specific types
archegonia in, 474n12
g ynodioecious figs, 177n14
g ynodioecy, 348n58
g ynoecium, 9n1
g ynomonoecy, 348n58Hades, as contractile root, 162– 163, 162f
hadith, 284n29
Hales, Stephen, Vegetable Staticks, 383
Hammurabi, 94
haploid, 488
Harrison, Martin, 254, 255f
Hartsoeker, Nicolas, 339
Hassan, Fekri, 114– 115
Hathor (“Lady of the Sycamore”), 115, 116f– 117f
Hedwig, Johann, on cryptogams,
466– 467, 467f
“Hegeira” (Goethe), 450
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 454– 455
The Philosophy of the Right, 454
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, 9n6
Heister, Lorenz, 387– 388
heliocentric solar system, bias against, 3– 4
Hell, in Dante’s Inferno, 289, 318n5
Henschell, August, 455
On the Sexuality of Plants, 431, 455
Heraclitus, 211
herbals, Medieval (14th– 16th centuries)
Dürer’s botanical illustrations in, 312f– 313f
Herbolario Vulgare, 309, 310f
naturalism in, rebirth of, 309– 311, 310f– 311f,
312 f– 313 f
printed illustrated, 15th+ c., 311– 316,
314 f– 315f
Tractatus de Herbis, 309, 310f