Flowers in Greek culture

Flowers have been very important for all civilizations, accompanying gods and humans in all great events, both joy and sadness, in the Greek mythology we find many of them associated with the gods and other divine events.

La Greek mythology He associates the lotus flower with a beautiful goddess who fled the forest in fear, went to a place called the lotus, because it was reserved for losers, failures of life, and there she sank. The young goddess struggled for many, many years and managed to emerge as a beautiful flower with long petals. For this reason, for the Greeks, the lotus flower means triumph after having fought a lot against failure.

The Rose, Its name derives from the Greek name Rhodon, whose possible meaning is "odorous effluvium", or "that which gives off an odor", this flower is consecrated to the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

The precocious flowering of violets has been explained by attributing their birth to the blood of Atis when in an act of madness he cut off his genitals, under a pine tree.

The anemone is a flower whose name derives from the Greek "anemos", which means wind, representing how ephemeral life is. In Greek mythology anemones were born from the blood of Adonis and means death.

Narcissus in the Greek mythology He was a young man who all fell in love with him because of his beauty, but he rejected them. Echo was a nymph who, because of his rejection, asked the goddess of revenge to enchant him and to fall in love with his own image reflected in a water fountain. He contemplated himself without respite throwing himself into the waters and in that place a beautiful flower was born.