Botanizing Rulers and Their Herbal Subjects

Plants and Political Power in Greek and Roman Literature

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3937167
AutoresLaurence Totelin (autor correspondente), Laurence Totelin Laurence Totelin
Ano2012
Volume66
Fascículo1/2
Páginas122
Data de publicação2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhoenix (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7834/phoenix.66.1-2.0122
OpenAlexW1758417769
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências citadas18

This paper argues that plants are sometimes made to play the role of “biographical objects” in Greek and Roman texts. The stories linking plants and three rulers (Attalus iii, Mithradates vi, and Juba ii) suggest that the rhetoric of power associated with the Greek or oriental practice of botany was only progressively accepted by the Romans

Ancient Greek · Ancient history · Ancient literature · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Political rhetoric · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Rhetoric · Traditional medicine · Botanical Research and Chemistry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy