Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? Medicine, Myth and Matriarchy in the Thera Frescoes

Rehak, Paul; Snihurowych, Roman R.

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1997

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Rehak, Paul

Snihurowych, Roman R.

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Archaeological Institute of America

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This unpublished presentation examines the frescoes in Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera, identifies the presence of saffron in the frescoes, and correlates the effects of consuming large amounts of saffron (and thereby large amounts of vitamin A) and some aspects in the painting.

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American Philological Association, Abstracts of Papers Presented at the One Hundred Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting (New York 1997) 180 (abstract)

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