Adrienne Mayor is the author, most recently, of
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World and
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy, which was a finalist for the National Book Award (both Princeton). She is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University and lives in Palo Alto, California.
13 Ebook di Adrienne Mayor
Adrienne Mayor: Gods and Robots
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life—and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant call …
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Adrienne Mayor: The Poison King
A compelling biography of the legendary king, rebel, and poisoner who defied the Roman Empire Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. Hi …
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Adrienne Mayor: The First Fossil Hunters
The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and G …
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Adrienne Mayor: Fossil Legends of the First Americans
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 t …
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Adrienne Mayor: The Amazons
The real history of the Amazons in war and love Amazons—fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world—were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displa …
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Nart Sagas
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 pre …
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€24.99
Adrienne Mayor: Götter und Maschinen
Antike und künstliche Intelligenz – das hört sich an wie ein Sci-Fi-Roman. Aber tatsächlich bevölkern gigantische Androiden, Techno-Hexen und böse Fembots die Mythen von Griechen und Römern, die uns …
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Adrienne Mayor: Götter und Maschinen
Antike und künstliche Intelligenz – das hört sich an wie ein Sci-Fi-Roman. Aber tatsächlich bevölkern gigantische Androiden, Techno-Hexen und böse Fembots die Mythen von Griechen und Römern, die uns …
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€23.99
Adrienne Mayor: Amazonas
Las amazonas, esas fieras mujeres que habitaban en los confines del mundo conocido, fueron las ‘míticas’ guerreras archienemigas de los antiguos griegos. Pero, ¿es adecuado emplear ‘míticas’? ¿Quiéne …
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Adrienne Mayor: Dioses y robots
Adrienne Mayor, autora de obras como Mitrídates el Grande, Amazonas o Fuego griego, flechas envenenadas y escorpionesse atreve ahora con la fascinante y jamás contada historia de cómo el mundo antigu …
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Adrienne Mayor: Fuego griego, flechas envenenadas y escorpiones
Armas de destrucción masiva, ataques con ántrax, temor ante envenenamientos masivos por parte de grupos terroristas… Aunque el miedo a la guerra bioquímica puede parecer muy moderno, su uso viene y …
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Adrienne Mayor: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs
A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large …
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Adrienne Mayor: Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws
A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels—and the surprising truths behind them Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowled …
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