Adrienne Mayor

From acclaimed folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor, an enchanting collection of the ancient myths that emerged out of the wonders—and disasters—of the natural world

The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology

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 were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to...

A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war

A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels—and the surprising truths behind them

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life—and even invented real automated machines

The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples...

The real history of the Amazons in war and love

A compelling biography of the legendary king, rebel, and poisoner who defied the Roman Empire