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Botanizing Rulers and Their Herbal Subjects: Plants and Political Power in Greek and Roman Literature (2012)

Totelin, Laurence M. V. (Author)

Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada
Volume: 66
Pages: 122--144

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Science and politics Biographies Kings and rulers; monarchs and monarchy Science and literature Botany Rhetoric in scientific discourse Ancient Rome (Italy) Greece

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.

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