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BOTANIZING RULERS AND THEIR HERBAL SUBJECTS: PLANTS AND POLITICAL POWER IN GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE

2012; Classical Association of Canada; Volume: 66; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/phx.2012.0013

1929-4883

Laurence Totelin,

Classical Antiquity Studies

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.