Adrienne Mayor The first fossil hunters

dinosaurs, mammoths, and myth in Greek and Roman times

Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants - these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts of the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than fictions? This is the arresting and original idea that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and documentation, she shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact - in ancient people's discoveries...

Non-fictie

Engels | 361 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton | 2023

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