I miss Caligula’s horny ships that were destroyed…
EDIT: I’ll add the context.
“The Romans and Greeks drove the silphium plant to extinction through overharvesting due to its high value. Native to Cyrenaica (modern-day Libya), silphium was used as a spice, medicine, and possible **contraceptive**. It was so prized that it appeared on coins. Despite efforts, it couldn’t be cultivated elsewhere, and by Nero’s time, it was considered extinct.”
Justurnormalperson12 on
context?
Sliver-Knight9219 on
The 1st ever F up
ding-dong-the-w-is-d on
To hell with bringing the mammoths back. This should be way higher on the list.
BigBurdTerd on
I mean they mostly liked to put it on their food. Whatever “medicinal” qualities it had was probably not the reason it was so popular.
Live_Angle4621 on
Askhistorians removing fun again, not a lot of evidence of use as contraceptive https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/vt1wps/what_evidence_do_we_have_about_the_effects_of/if69elf/
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I miss Caligula’s horny ships that were destroyed…
EDIT: I’ll add the context.
“The Romans and Greeks drove the silphium plant to extinction through overharvesting due to its high value. Native to Cyrenaica (modern-day Libya), silphium was used as a spice, medicine, and possible **contraceptive**. It was so prized that it appeared on coins. Despite efforts, it couldn’t be cultivated elsewhere, and by Nero’s time, it was considered extinct.”
context?
The 1st ever F up
To hell with bringing the mammoths back. This should be way higher on the list.
I mean they mostly liked to put it on their food. Whatever “medicinal” qualities it had was probably not the reason it was so popular.
Askhistorians removing fun again, not a lot of evidence of use as contraceptive https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/vt1wps/what_evidence_do_we_have_about_the_effects_of/if69elf/