Please join us to hear a talk, “When Roots Look Back, or Byzantine Plant Thought and the Case of the Gorgonion,” presented by Andrew Griebeler, Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.

Image details: Illustration of two eryngoes (ēryngion, Eryngium spp.), late 9th or early 10th century, painted parchment, 155⁄8  × 11 in. (39.5 × 28 cm). Morgan Library, New York, MS M 652, fol. 57r (artwork in the public domain; photograph provided by the Morgan Library & Museum)