Nectar and Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World MythologyBloomsbury Academic, 26. 10. 2000. - 285 страница A publishing first, Nectar and Ambrosia presents an encyclopedic treatment of the magic properties and uses of food by mortals and immortals alike, from the pages of myth and legend. |
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... Greeks may have identified lettuce with impotence for the same reason the Egyptians identified it with fertility : its shape . Ancient people often assigned proper- ties to plants according to their appearance , and the lettuce the Greeks ...
... Greeks may have identified lettuce with impotence for the same reason the Egyptians identified it with fertility : its shape . Ancient people often assigned proper- ties to plants according to their appearance , and the lettuce the Greeks ...
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... Greek myths . The ancient Greeks called celery and parsley by the same Greek name . Although people in other areas of the ancient world consumed the plants , the Greeks used parsley and celery primarily for making wreaths , garlands ...
... Greek myths . The ancient Greeks called celery and parsley by the same Greek name . Although people in other areas of the ancient world consumed the plants , the Greeks used parsley and celery primarily for making wreaths , garlands ...
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... Greeks described the inferior meadow saffron , or spring crocus , as having sprouted from drops of poison brewed by the witch Medea . Medea , they said , used this crocus to make her enemies choke to death . The superior saffron crocus ...
... Greeks described the inferior meadow saffron , or spring crocus , as having sprouted from drops of poison brewed by the witch Medea . Medea , they said , used this crocus to make her enemies choke to death . The superior saffron crocus ...
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