plant

Asphodel

Nature

The named Asphodelus of Greek underworld meadow speech. Not lily as the Lots pale stem, and not a generic cemetery-flower dump.

Also known as Asphodelus · Asphodel meadow plant

Hellenic religion

  • Asphodel appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names asphodel among Greek plant and meadow speech tied to underworld-neighbor and ordinary landscape. A named asphodel in that periegesis, not asphodel-meadows as a second identical claim and not every lily dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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  • Asphodel is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists asphodel (ἀσφόδελος) root among drawing and cleansing drugs. A named asphodel in that handbook, not underworld-meadow myth as this sentence and not lily as the pale stem already walked.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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