16/08/2020
POPULAR LEGENDS ABOUT SAFFRON
You have heard about the tragedy of Crocus and Smilax?
The tragedy of Crocus and Smilax according to Ovid:
Like many other plants saffron is linked to many legends. One of them is telling the story of the adventurous and beautiful nymph Smilax Crocus.
In it he posed several trips to the land of Cilicia, located in present Turkey, on the southern coast of Anatolia, which ventured to place large ships to reach the highest quality saffron price lower.
Travel in search of gold and red that become long strenuous. The return of one of them, Crocus met in Athens in a beautiful forest nymph who responded to the name of Smilax. Although initially the attraction was mutual, after the young man did not stop chasing his beloved and this, at the insistence tired, decided to reject it. Then Crocus, possessed a passion and a little wild trying by all means please Smilax, became one of his delusions in this striking flower, colorful outside and red, as his passion inside