Lettuce
p. 154: “Aphrodite’s boy husband”: Bion, “Lament for Adonis,” Anthology of Classical Myth, (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2016) p. 73.
p. 155: “Adonis died while still a boy”: Apollodorus, Bibliotheka, translated by James Frazer, 3.14.4. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D14%3Asection%3D4 (accessed September 13, 2023).
p. 155: “Pliny the Elder”: Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, 19.38, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D19%3Achapter%3D38 (accessed September 4, 2023).
p. 156: “A curse upon destructive”: Reizammer, Laurialan, The Athenian Adonia in Context, (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016), p. 153, fn 26.
p. 156: “Hera conceived Hebe alone”: Arthur Bernard Cook, “Who Was the Wife of Zeus?” The Classical Review, vol. 20, no. 7, 1906, pp. 365–78. https://www.jstor.org/stable/695286 (accessed September 4, 2023).
p. 156: “more fruitless than”: Zenobius, Cent. 1.49. https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/04/21/the-gardens-of-adonis-a-proverb/ (accessed September 4, 2023).
p. 157: “Socrates juxtaposes”: Plato, Phaedrus, translated by R. Hackforth (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969), 276b.
p. 157: “Women’s lives were”: Mogens Herman Hansen and Thomas Heine Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) p.131
p. 157: “The Athenian lawgiver Solon”: Plutarch, “Solon,” translated by John Dryden, p. 72.
p. 157: “A few herbalists still consider”: WebMD, Wild Lettuce – Uses, Side Effects, and More. https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-342/wild-lettuce (accessed September 4, 2023).
Chaste Tree
p. 158: “chaste tree as an anaphrodisiac”: Walter Burkert, Greek Religion, translated by John Raffan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Uniersity Press, 1985), p. 135.
p. 158: “for married citizen women only”: Ibid., p. 242.
p. 158: “women camped in tents”: H.W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977) p. 86.
p. 159 “many cultures believed”: Ibid., p. 160.
p. 159: “they sat on mats”: Tzanetou, Angeliki. “Something to Do with Demeter: Ritual and Performance in Aristophanes’ Women at the Thesmophoria.” The American Journal of Philology 123, no. 3 (2002): 329–67. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1561692 (accessed September 2, 2023).
p. 159: “According to Pliny the Elder”: Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, 24.38. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D24%3Achapter%3D38 (accessed September 2, 2023).
p. 159: “They were allowed”: Xenophon, “Constitution of the Lacedaimonians”, translated by E. C. Marchant, in Scripta Minora, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968) 1.4, p.139.
p. 159: “Their husbands could”: Ibid.,1.7-8, pp. 139-41
p. 159: “the wedding night involved ritual kidnapping”: Oswyn Murray, Early Greece, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1983, p. 169.
p. 159: “Xenophon tells us”: Xenophon, “Constitution of the Lacedaimonians,” 2.4, translated by Marchant, p.143.
p. 160: “the ability to successfully raid”: Plutarch, “Ancient Customs of the Spartans,” Moralia, translated by F.C. Babbitt (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961 reprint of 1931 original), vol. 3 (section 40), p. 445, 239D.
p. 160: “adolescent boys were flogged”: Murray, Early Greece, p. 171.
p. 160: “Punishment was administered”: Xenophon, “Constitution of the Lacedaimonians”, 2.8, translated by Marchant, p.145.
p. 161: “Apollo attempted”: Jaroslav Levy, “Contribution to the Identification of Some Trees and Shrubs in the Oldest Works of European Literature,” Isis 52, no. 1 (1961): 78–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/228342 (accessed September 2, 2023).
p. 161: “Odysseus tied his men”: Ibid., Accessed September 2, 2023.
p. 161: “pirates tried to shackle Dionysus”: Ibid., Accessed September 2, 2023.
p. 161: “In Materia Medica, Dioscorides”: Dioscorides, De Materia Medica “1.135”, translated by Osbaldeston, p. 137.
Myrrh
p. 164: “spells include myrrh”: Alan Sumler, “Ingesting Magic: Ingredients and Ecstatic Outcomes in the Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri,” Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2017), pp. 99-126. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/arion.25.1.0099 (accessed September 7, 2023).
Quince
p. 166: “By Artemis, it is Acontius”: Alan Sumler, “Ingesting Magic: Ingredients and Ecstatic Outcomes in the Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri,” Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2017), pp. 99-126. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/arion.25.1.0099 (accessed September 7, 2023).
p. 167: “You may chide”: Ovid, Heroides, 20, 21. https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidHeroides5.html#20) (accessed September 8, 2023).