Apple
p. 137: “struck with an apple”: Aristophanes, The Clouds, translated by William James Hickie (London: Bohn, 1853), lines 986-999. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0019,003:986 (accessed September 2, 2023).
Narcissus
p. 141: “The Furies were charged”: Aeschylus, The Eumenides, (NYC: Washington Square Press, 1971), ll. 490-516.
p. 141: “the narcissus was sacred”: https://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Erinyes.html (accessed September 8, 2023).
Pomegranate
p. 145: “describes six ways”: A. R. Ruis, “Pomegranate and the Mediation of Balance in Early Medicine.” Gastronomica, vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 22–33. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/gfc.2015.15.1.22 (accessed September 9, 2023).
p. 147: “US Circuit Court of Appeals”: Pom Wonderful LLC v. FTC, 777 F.3d 478 (2015).
Myrtle
p. 148: “Pausanias says”: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Volume 1, translated by Levi, p. 208.
p. 148: “Was she taking out her anger”: Frances Stahl Bernstein, “This Is Where I Found Her: The Goddess of the Garden.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 12, no. 2, 1996, pp. 99–120. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25002290 (accessed September 7, 2023).
p. 149: “she covered herself”: Ovid, Fasti, translated by A.S. Kline, Book 4, April 1, p. 114, https://www.poetryintranslation.com/klineasfasti.php (accessed September 4, 2023).
p. 149: “Ovid also says”: Ovid, Fasti, translated by A.S. Kline, Book 4, Introduction, p. 109, https://www.poetryintranslation.com/klineasfasti.php (accessed September 4, 2023).
p. 149: “he encourages prostitutes”: Ovid, Fasti, translated by A.S. Kline, Book 4, April 23, p. 144, https://www.poetryintranslation.com/klineasfasti.php (accessed September 4, 2023).
p. 149: “In The Deipnosophists”: Athenaeus, Deipnosophists volume 7, 15.676, translated by Gulick, 1961, pp. 119-121.
p. 150: “Scholars debate”: Bettina Tsigarida, “A New Gold Myrtle Wreath from Central Macedonia in the Collection of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.” The Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 105, 2010, pp. 305–15. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41420121 (accessed September 7, 2023).
p. 150: “wreaths were worn by priests”: Kevin Clinton, “The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 64, no. 3, 1974, p. 33. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1006226 (accessed September 7, 2023).
p. 150: Initiates in the mysteries”: Ibid., pp. 103, 106. (accessed September 7, 2023).
p. 150: Theophrastus tells us”: Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants II, “Concerning Odors,” 27-8, pp. 351-3.
p. 150: “He also offers copious advice”: Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, Books 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
p. 150: “Dioscorides recommends”: Dioscorides, De Materia Medica, “1-155”, translated by Osbaldeston,pp. 158, 161.
p. 150: “parts of the myrtle plant”: Francesca Giampieri, Danila Cianciosi, and Tamara Y. Forbes-Hernandez,“Myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) berries, seeds, leaves, and essential oils: New undiscovered sources of natural compounds with promising health benefits,” Food Frontiers, vol. 1 issue 3, September 2020. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fft2.37 (accessed March 8, 2024).
p. 151: “Dionysus descended”: Hyginus Astronomica, 2.5.2, translated by Mary Grant. https://topostext.org/work/207 (accessed September 13, 2023).
p. 151: “They emerged from the underworld”: Calasso, Roberto, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, (NYC: Knopf, 1993), pp. 215-16.