Adrienne Mayor

Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws

And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A collection of short pieces by historian of myth and science, Adrienne Mayor, on a wide array of fascinating and fun classical myths and the reality which often lies behind them"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 133mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780691211183
• ISBN-10: 0691211183
• Artikelnr.: 62846283

Autorenporträt

Adrienne Mayor's books include The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, and The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (all Princeton). She is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University.

Rezensionen

"Mayor's cabinet of curiosities conveys admirably her sense of the wonder, complexity, and engrossing strangeness of the ancient Greco-Roman world, as well as the richness and diversity of the many ages that followed."—James Romm, Wall Street Journal