Crataeus

Chronology

Publication: 
[illustrated herbal, title unknown]
Date: 
1st Century BCE
Summary: 
Personal physician to Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus [105]. Compiled what is thought to be the first illustrated herbal which included, according to Pliny, "painted likenesses of plants" [105].
Regions: 
Ukraine
Russia - European
Georgia
Turkey
Timeline: 
99 - 0 (C1st BCE)
199 - 100 (C2nd BCE)
Other Reference: 
Crataeus
Pliny

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