In ancient Greece the use of herbs was very common. Many ancient Greek botanists based their medicine on herbs and it seems that they were aware of many herbal properties. One of them was Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine. Many ancient Greek physicians, philosophers and writers often mention in their scripts, herbs as being healing. Some of them are:
- Antiphanes of Berge
- Clearchus of Heraklia
- Dioscorides
- Hesiod
- Homer
- LysimachusKalimachios
- Mithradates Eupator
- Phaenias of Eresus
- Ptolemeos
- Pythagoras of Samos
- Sophocles
- Theophrastus
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