Silphium and Common Ancient Medical Procedures
'In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (lines 208-210), for example, Demeter orders Meta- neira to mix barley and water with pennyroyal. Metaneira makes the potion (kykeon) and offers it to...
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Floralia, the Festival of Blooms
"use life's beauty as it blooms" Ovid, Fasti, V.353 Floralia was an ancient Roman festival, a celebration for Flora, a goddess who had no Greek counterpart. As they did with...
Amare: So Much To Love
“I will show you a love potion without drugs, without herbs, without the spell of any witch: if you want to be loved, love.” (Epistle IX) Hecato of Rhodes I...
Daydream of Spring
I am so overjoyed to be met with our first semi-normal spring in two years. I am blissfully dreaming of human connection in the sunshine. Patio cocktails, shared meals, live...