The large number of plant species mentioned by Theocritus in the Idylls makes one wonder how the poet could have known about them and, in this respect, how much was due to scientific knowledge and how much to creative imagination. Examples in the Idylls I, II and XIII show that the Theophrastus' Enquiry into Plants was the main source of information for Theocritus, completed by extracts from Homer and the Tragics, as well as by folklorist traditions. While respecting a certain botanical reality, the poet gives full symbolical value to the plants of his choice, and places them in the context of this fictional literature by a judicious use of recollections, allusions and premonitory signs.Le nombre élevé d'espèces végétales mentionnées dans l...
The article discusses literary and scientific discourse in relation to plant cognition. I argue that...
Stories of Plant Names : the Jardin médicinal by Antoine Mizauld is a PhD thesis in French literatur...
Theophrastus of Eressus (371-286 BC) is widely recognised as the founder of Botany and the co-founde...
The large number of plant species mentioned by Theocritus in the Idylls makes one wonder how the poe...
La littérature grecque permet de dénombrer une petite centaine de plantes utilisées dans l'Antiquité...
De plus en plus d’études s’accordent à reconnaître dans la métaphore un instrument de la pensée, plu...
The scholarly literature devoted to Theocritus’ Idylls emphasizes that a form of “realism”, both sin...
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International audienceTo fully understand the making and meaning of an early modern botanical or med...
As anthropologists, philosophers and linguists have nowadays largely recognized, metaphors are not s...
The article discusses literary and scientific discourse in relation to plant cognition. I argue that...
Stories of Plant Names : the Jardin médicinal by Antoine Mizauld is a PhD thesis in French literatur...
Theophrastus of Eressus (371-286 BC) is widely recognised as the founder of Botany and the co-founde...
The large number of plant species mentioned by Theocritus in the Idylls makes one wonder how the poe...
La littérature grecque permet de dénombrer une petite centaine de plantes utilisées dans l'Antiquité...
De plus en plus d’études s’accordent à reconnaître dans la métaphore un instrument de la pensée, plu...
The scholarly literature devoted to Theocritus’ Idylls emphasizes that a form of “realism”, both sin...
Drawing attention to the status of plants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through a...
Learning and Humor in Theocritus’ Bucolic Idylls – In his bucolic Idylls, Theocritus enjoys playing ...
This article gives a quick panorama of what was known about plants during the Greek and Roman period...
This paper argues that plants are sometimes made to play the role of “biographical objects” in Greek...
Histoires des noms des plantes : le Jardin médicinal d’Antoine Mizauld est une thèse en littérature ...
The plant as asubject in Mercè Rodoreda’s writingsIn Mercè Rodoreda’s nove...
International audienceTo fully understand the making and meaning of an early modern botanical or med...
As anthropologists, philosophers and linguists have nowadays largely recognized, metaphors are not s...
The article discusses literary and scientific discourse in relation to plant cognition. I argue that...
Stories of Plant Names : the Jardin médicinal by Antoine Mizauld is a PhD thesis in French literatur...
Theophrastus of Eressus (371-286 BC) is widely recognised as the founder of Botany and the co-founde...