EditorialNaples garlic or Neapolitan moly, Allium neapolitanum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweet's The British Flower Garden, Ridgeway, London, 1827.
EditorialMoly, Herb described by Dioscorides, Fol. 173v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialOdysseus in the palace of Circe The works of Odysseus (series title), Odysseus in the palace of Circe. On the right, Mercury offers Odysseus an herb that acts as an antidote to the potion of Circe. Odysseus eats it and goes to Circe. There the men of O...