Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Sciences of Antiquity Series |
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Sciences of Antiquity Series
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Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note to the reader; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 General introduction; 1.2 The sources; Notes; 2 Acquiring knowledge of plants in the ancient world; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Personal observation; 2.3 Things heard; 2.4 Written sources; 2.5 Conclusions; Notes; 3 Organising the vegetable kingdom; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Plants in the order of things; 3.3 Diaphorai, eidos and genos; 3.4 Ancient systems of plant classification; 3.5 Lichens, fungi and other organisms; 3.6 Conclusions; Notes |
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4 Naming, describing and depicting plants in antiquity4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Naming plants in antiquity; 4.3 Describing plants in antiquity; 4.4 Depicting plants in antiquity; 4.5 Conclusions; Notes; 5 The life of a plant; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Generation; 5.3 Growth; 5.4 Annual processes: budding, flowering, fruiting and leaf-shedding; 5.5 Old age and death; 5.6 Diseases; 5.7 Conclusions; Notes; 6 Airs, waters and places: plants and their environments in antiquity; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Cultivated and wild; garden and forest; 6.3 Ethnic vegetables and plant transplantation |
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6.4 Aquatic plants6.5 Plant conservation issues in antiquity; 6.6 Conclusions; Notes; Conclusions: useful and wonderful plants; Bibliography; Passages cited; Index of plants; General index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Botany, Medical -- Greece -- History
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Botany, Medical -- Rome -- History
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Botany -- Greece -- History
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Botany -- Rome -- History
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Materia medica, Vegetable.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Botany -- history
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Materia Medica -- history
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Phytotherapy -- history
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History, Ancient
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Greek World
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Roman World
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Phytotherapy
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Botany.
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Botany, Medical.
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Materia medica, Vegetable.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Greece.
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Rome (Empire)
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Totelin, Laurence
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ISBN |
9780203458358 |
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0203458354 |
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1134386788 |
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9781134386789 |
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