The Library & Sources
Suggested resources on Greek plant lore, mythology, herbalism, and Mediterranean gardening
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Index
Selected Academic Articles & Websites
Primary Texts and Greek Mythology
The Melissae, Corycian Cave, and Delphi
Larson, Jennifer. “The Corycian nymphs and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes." Kent State University. (February 1996).
Larson, Jennifer. Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore. Oxford University Press (2001).
Pausanias. Description of Greece: 10.5. http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:10.5.
Ancient Greek Botany and Plant Mythology
Brussell, David Eric. “Medicinal Plants of Mt. Pelion, Greece.” Economic Botany, Vol. 58, Supplement (Winter, 2004), pp. S174-S202. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4256917.
Dionysos, Maenads, & Satyrs
Bremmer, Jan N. “Greek Maenadism Reconsidered.” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 55 (1984): 267–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20184041.
Csapo, Eric. “Riding the Phallus for Dionysus: Iconology, Ritual, and Gender-Role De/Construction.” Phoenix 51, no. 3/4 (1997): 253–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/1192539.
Keuls, Eva C. “Male-Female Interaction in Fifth-Century Dionysiac Ritual as Shown in Attic Vase Painting.” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 55 (1984): 287–97. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20184042.
McNally, Sheila. “THE MAENAD IN EARLY GREEK ART.” Arethusa 11, no. 1/2 (1978): 101–35. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26308156.
Olszewski, Edward. “Dionysus's Enigmatic Thyrsus.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 163, No. 2 (JUNE 2019): 153-173. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45380627.
Ruck, Carl A. P. “Entheogens in Ancient Times: Wine and the Rituals of Dionysus.” Toxicology in Antiquity: Toxicology in Antiquity Volume I (2018): 343-52.
Birth Control in the Ancient Greek World
Nelson, Sarah E. “Persephone's Seeds: Abortifacients and Contraceptives in Ancient Greek Medicine and Their Recent Scientific Appraisal.” Pharmacy in History, Vol. 51, No. 2 (2009), pp. 57-69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41112420.
Riddle, John M., J. Worth Estes, Josiah C. Russell. “Ever Since Eve... Birth Control in the Ancient World.” Archaeology, Vol. 47, No. 2 (March/April 1994), pp. 29-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41770706.
Riddle, John M., J. Worth Estes. “Oral Contraceptives in Ancient and Medieval Times.” American Scientist, Vol. 80, No. 3 (May-June 1992), pp. 226-233. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29774642.
The Underworld, Geomythology, Geology/Hydrogeology
Connors, Catherine, and Cindy Clendenon. “Mapping Tartaros: Observation, Inference, and Belief in Ancient Greek and Roman Accounts of Karst Terrain.” Classical Antiquity, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2016): 147–88. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26362668.
Caskey, John L., and Sotirios I. Dakaris. “The Dark Palace of Hades.” Archaeology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1962): 85–93. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41670313.
Mackie, C. J. “Scamander and the Rivers of Hades in Homer.” The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 120, No. 4 (1999): 485–501. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1561802.
