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Adrienne Mayor Gods and robots
myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology
Engels | 275 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton | 2018
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Adrienne Mayor The Amazons
lives and legends of warrior women across the ancient world
Engels | 519 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, Oxford | 2014
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Adrienne Mayor The Poison King
the life and legend of Mithradates, Rome's deadliest enemy
Engels | 448 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ [etc.] | 2010
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Adrienne Mayor Greek fire, poison arrows, and scorpion bombs
biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world
Engels | 319 pagina's | Overlook Duckworth, Woodstock [etc.], London | 2003
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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...
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Engels | 361 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton | 2023
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