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24.07.2025 22:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
"Figure 3. a) Sambucus ebulus on the slopes of Mt. Helicon today (Courtesy: Andrew Koh). b) Vienna Dioscorides illustration of χαμαιάκτη from early 6th century CE, typically equated with Sambucus ebulus today (Rollo, Christopher, Yale Medical Historical Library).14 Ps.-Thess. Presb. 27.4; Robertson (1978, 68-71); Tolsa (2019, 637). Nelson (2005, 219-36) argues that the oration is an excerpt of the lost third-century history of Kos by Makareus. Tolsa (2019, 637-38 n. 31) finds Nelson’s view speculative. 15 While there is great overlap between the known uses for Helleborustoday and what is written in antiquity, modern medicine has nuanced its properties into realms such as immunostimulation for anticancer treat-ment. Büssing and Schweizer (1998). 16 Scientists today typically identify ancient white hellebore (Figure 2) as Veratrum album and ancient black hellebore as Helleborus cyclophyllussince H. niger is thought to grow only as far south as the northern Balkans today. Long et al. (2023). 17 Hor. S. 2.3.83, 166; Ov. Pont. 4.3.53; Pers. 4.16; Juv. 13.97. See also Sumler (2023, 57). 18 Plin. Nat. 25.52. 19 Huntsman (2009, 124-9.) 20 Cic. Orat. 1.14.62. The dramatic date of the De oratore is 91 BCE. 21 De morbis acutis et chronicis 1.15.138. "

"Figure 3. a) Sambucus ebulus on the slopes of Mt. Helicon today (Courtesy: Andrew Koh). b) Vienna Dioscorides illustration of χαμαιάκτη from early 6th century CE, typically equated with Sambucus ebulus today (Rollo, Christopher, Yale Medical Historical Library).14 Ps.-Thess. Presb. 27.4; Robertson (1978, 68-71); Tolsa (2019, 637). Nelson (2005, 219-36) argues that the oration is an excerpt of the lost third-century history of Kos by Makareus. Tolsa (2019, 637-38 n. 31) finds Nelson’s view speculative. 15 While there is great overlap between the known uses for Helleborustoday and what is written in antiquity, modern medicine has nuanced its properties into realms such as immunostimulation for anticancer treat-ment. Büssing and Schweizer (1998). 16 Scientists today typically identify ancient white hellebore (Figure 2) as Veratrum album and ancient black hellebore as Helleborus cyclophyllussince H. niger is thought to grow only as far south as the northern Balkans today. Long et al. (2023). 17 Hor. S. 2.3.83, 166; Ov. Pont. 4.3.53; Pers. 4.16; Juv. 13.97. See also Sumler (2023, 57). 18 Plin. Nat. 25.52. 19 Huntsman (2009, 124-9.) 20 Cic. Orat. 1.14.62. The dramatic date of the De oratore is 91 BCE. 21 De morbis acutis et chronicis 1.15.138. "

Was Caligula a plant daddy 🪴🌿? Ancient historians Trevor S. Luke & Andrew J. Koh have a new paper out in _PEASA_ on Suetonius (Cal. 22, 29), the plant hellebore + Roman medical convalescence & healing at the port city of Antikyra (Pleiades: pleiades.stoa.org/places/540642) peasa.eu/site/article...

11.07.2025 11:36 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Was Caligula a madman? Maybe. But he also knew his medicine, scholars find The Roman Emperor Caligula, notorious for his blood lust, may have had a strong general knowledge of medicine, according to a new study.

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11.07.2025 14:42 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Jessica Clark (@koriannon.bsky.social) and I will be hosting a panel on race, gender, and warfare at the 16th Celtic Classical Conference in beautiful Coimbra! Check out the CFP below and please do get in touch if you have questions or want to submit an abstract:

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20.11.2024 18:33 — 👍 14    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2

Good riddance.

04.10.2023 10:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This extraordinary enamelled glass cup depicts a gladiator & dates to c.100CE. It was found in Afghanistan, and was part of a Greco-Bactrian kingdom at the time. It is thought that this was made inside the Roman Empire and then exported. An amazing piece

🏛️Musée Guimat 📷 Vassil 🏺 AncientBlueSky

04.10.2023 06:40 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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