Overview :Could Griffins have been real? When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions, this mythic hybrid of a lion and... Read More
Overview :From acclaimed folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor, an enchanting collection of the ancient myths that emerged out of the wonders--and d... Read More
Overview :The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills... Read More
Overview :The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life--and even invented real automated machin... Read More
Overview :From acclaimed folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor, an enchanting collection of the ancient myths that emerged out of the wonders--and d... Read More
Overview :Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Ac... Read More
Overview :A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels--and the surprising truths behind them Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of hist... Read More
Overview :The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures... Read More
Overview :Drawing on sources ancient and modern, Mayor describes ancient recipes for arrow poisons, booby traps rigged with plague, petroleum-based co... Read More
Overview :Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first oper... Read More
Overview :A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of w... Read More
Overview :Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease... are these terrifying agents and implements of warfare... Read More