Annette GieseckeAnnette Giesecke is the Elias Ahuja Professor of Classics in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Delaware, USA. She is author of Classical Mythology A to Z (2020), The Mythology of Plants: botanical lore from Anient Greece and Rome (2014), and The Epic City: Urbanism, Utopia, and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome (2007); and co-author of The Good Gardener? Nature, Humanity, and the Garden (2015) and Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia, and the Garden (2012). She is co-General Editor of the 6 volume series A Cultural History of Plants (Bloomsbury, 2021), of which she is editor of the volume A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity. Read More Read Less