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Adrienne Mayor's Degrees

PhD Classics Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Adrienne Mayor is a historian of ancient science and a classical folklorist. Mayor specializes in ancient history and the study of "folk science", or how pre-scientific cultures interpreted data about the natural world, and how these interpretations form the basis of many ancient myths, folklore and popular beliefs. Her work in pre-scientific fossil discoveries and traditional interpretations of paleontological remains has opened up a new field within the emerging discipline of geomythology and classical folklore. Mayor's book, Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, & the Scorpion Bombs, on the origins of biological and chemical warfare revealed the ancient roots of poison weaponry and tactics.

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Adrienne Mayor's Published Works

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Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination (2007) (243)
The first fossil hunters : paleontology in Greek and Roman times (2000) (85)
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World (2004) (85)
Fossil Legends of the First Americans (2005) (66)
Gods and Robots (2018) (45)
The folklore of footprints in stone: From classical antiquity to the present (2001) (43)
Making Sense of Nonsense Inscriptions Associated with Amazons and Scythians on Athenian Vases (2022) (37)
A History of Ideas in Ichnology (2012) (32)
The First Fossil Hunters (2000) (25)
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (2009) (25)
The Folklore of Dinosaur Trackways in China: Impact on Paleontology (2011) (21)
The Nessus Shirt in the New World: Smallpox Blankets in History and Legend (1995) (19)
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times (2011) (17)
Tracking a Legend: An Early Cretaceous Sauropod Trackway from Zhaojue County, Sichuan Province, Southwestern China (2015) (16)
Place names describing fossils in oral traditions (2007) (13)
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology (2018) (11)
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (2014) (11)
Griffins and Arimaspeans (1993) (9)
Ancient References to the Fossils from the Land of Pythagoras (2004) (9)
Killer Khilats, Part 1: Legends of Poisoned "Robes of Honour" in India (2001) (8)
The Poison King (2017) (7)
Dinosaur Tracks, Myths and Buildings: The Jin Ji (Golden Chicken) Stones from Zizhou Area, Northern Shaanxi, China (2015) (7)
Killer Khilats, Part 2: Imperial Collecting of Poison Dress Legends in India (2001) (5)
Bibliography of Classical Folklore Scholarship: Myths, Legends, and Popular Beliefs of Ancient Greece and Rome (2000) (5)
Chemical and Biological Warfare in Antiquity (2015) (5)
Direct oral anticoagulants and delays to hip fracture repair (2020) (5)
The ‘Monster of Troy’ Vase: The Earliest Artistic Record of a Vertbrate Fossil Discovery? (2000) (4)
Mithridates of Pontus and His Universal Antidote (2019) (4)
Interest in geological and palaeontological curiosities by southern African non-western societies: A review and perspectives for future study (2019) (4)
Hydromythology and the Ancient Greek World: An Earth Science Perspective Emphasizing Karst Hydrology (2009) (3)
Animals in Warfare (2014) (3)
Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook (review) (2009) (3)
Ancient Warfare and Toxicology (2005) (2)
Gods and robots: the ancient quest for artificial life (2018) (2)
Alexander the Great: A Questionable Death (2014) (2)
Tales from the Badlands (2005) (1)
24 Amazonistan: Central Asia (2014) (1)
Guardians of the gold (1994) (1)
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs (2022) (1)
Ancient Fossil Discoveries and Interpretations (2014) (1)
3. Education of a Young Hero (2009) (0)
Imagining the Captive Amazon in Myth, Art, and History (2020) (0)
Cartographic collaborations in the new world (2011) (0)
5 Breasts: One or Two? (2014) (0)
Review of 'Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature' (Hansen) (1998) (0)
10 The Amazon Way (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 4. The Prairies: Fossil Medicine and Spirit Animals (2013) (0)
13. Renegade Kings (2009) (0)
CHAPTER 7. HEPHAESTUS DIVINE DEVICES AND AUTOMATA (2019) (0)
The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Armand Marie Leroi (2015) (0)
FOSSIL LEGENDS OF THE FIRST AMERICANS Reviewed by Norman MacLeod PALAEONTOLOGISTS AMONG THE FIRST PEOPLES? (2006) (0)
CHAPTER 5. Mythology, Natural Philosophy, and Fossils (2011) (0)
CHAPTER 4. Artistic and Archaeological Evidence for Fossil Discoveries (2011) (0)
Preface: HELL CREEK, MONTANA, SUMMER 1998 (2013) (0)
PART 2 Historical Women Warriors and Classical Traditions (2014) (0)
Appendix: Names of Amazons and Warrior Women in Ancient Literature and Art from the Mediterranean to China (2014) (0)
HISTORICAL TIME LINE (2011) (0)
GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE (2011) (0)
CHAPTER 4. BEYOND NATURE: ENHANCED POWERS BORROWED FROM GODS AND ANIMALS (2019) (0)
CHAPTER 3. THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY AND ETERNAL YOUTH (2019) (0)
Sandra Blakely, Myth, Ritual, and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Recent Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 328 pp. (2008) (0)
INTRODUCTION. MADE, NOT BORN (2019) (0)
2. A Savior Is Born in a Castle by the Sea (2009) (0)
7 Naked Amazons (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 2. Earthquakes and Elephants: Prehistoric Remains in Mediterranean Lands (2011) (0)
1. DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS (2011) (0)
15 Hippolyte and Heracles (2014) (0)
Amazons (1958) (0)
APPENDIX 2. Ancient Testimonia (2011) (0)
CHAPTER 9. BETWEEN MYTH AND HISTORY: REAL AUTOMATA AND LIFELIKE ARTIFICES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD (2019) (0)
8 Sex and Love (2014) (0)
11. Living Like a King (2009) (0)
2 Scythia, Amazon Homeland (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 2. New Spain: Bones of Fear and Birds of Terro (2013) (0)
EPILOGUE. AWE, DREAD, HOPE: DEEP LEARNING AND ANCIENT STORIES (2019) (0)
13 Armed and Dangerous: Weapons and Warfare (2014) (0)
1. Kill Them All, and Let the Gods Sort Them Out (2009) (0)
CHAPTER 6. PYGMALION’S LIVING DOLL AND PROMETHEUS’S FIRST HUMANS (2019) (0)
Biological and Chemical Warfare (2015) (0)
21 Hypsicratea, King Mithradates, and Pompey’s Amazons (2014) (0)
3 Sarmatians, a Love Story (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 2. MEDEA’S CAULDRON OF REJUVENATION (2019) (0)
CHAPTER 5. The High Plains: Thunder Birds, Water Monsters, and Buffalo-Calling Stones (2013) (0)
Alexander the Great (2019) (0)
22 Caucasia, Crossroads of Eurasia (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 6. Centaur Bones: Paleontological Fictions (2011) (0)
[Life cycle and existential crises]. (1988) (0)
Reachable Stars: Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America (2008) (0)
Appendix Two: Mithradates’ Aἀerlife in the Arts and Popular Culture (2009) (0)
5. Return of the King (2009) (0)
Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity, and: Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and Dead in Ancient Greece (review) (2001) (0)
23 Persia, Egypt, North Africa, Arabia (2014) (0)
9. Battle for Greece (2009) (0)
20 Thalestris and Alexander the Great (2014) (0)
6. Storm Clouds (2009) (0)
16 Antiope and Theseus (2014) (0)
Prologue: Atalanta, the Greek Amazon (2014) (0)
APPENDIX 1. Large Vertebrate Fossil Species in the Ancient World (2011) (0)
9 Drugs, Dance, and Music (2014) (0)
14 Amazon Languages and Names (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 1. The Northeast: Giants, Great Bears, and Grandfather of the Buffalo (2013) (0)
4 Bones: Archaeology of Amazons (2014) (0)
12 Who Invented Trousers (2014) (0)
INTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION (2011) (0)
Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians (2016) (0)
1 Ancient Puzzles and Modern Myths (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 5. DAEDALUS AND THE LIVING STATUES (2019) (0)
12. Falling Star (2009) (0)
15. In the Tower (2009) (0)
PART 3 Amazons in Greek and Roman Myth, Legend, and History (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 1. The Gold-Guarding Griffin: A Paleontological Legend (2011) (0)
PART 1 Who were the Amazons (2014) (0)
17 Battle for Athens (2014) (0)
Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in the Greek and Roman World: Tracing the History of Human Curiosity about Fossils (2010) (0)
CHAPTER 8. PANDORA: BEAUTIFUL, ARTIFICIAL, EVIL (2019) (0)
List of Contributors (2019) (0)
CONCLUSION: Common Ground (2013) (0)
Introduction for Bazopoulou‐Kyrkanidou's “What makes Hephaestus lame?” (1997) (0)
Title Page, Copyright Page (2014) (0)
What's New, Honey? (1998) (0)
Labor IX (2021) (0)
INTRODUCTION: Marsh Monsters of Big Bone Lick (2013) (0)
6 Skin: Tattooed Amazons (2014) (0)
CHAPTER 3. Ancient Discoveries of Giant Bones (2011) (0)
CHAPTER 3. The Southwest: Fossil Fetishes and Monster Slayers (2013) (0)
18 Penthesilea and Achilles at Troy (2014) (0)
4. The Lost Boys (2009) (0)
Geomythology, Caves, and Tourism: History and Future Perspectives (2022) (0)
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws (2022) (0)
Organ Theft Legends (2006) (0)
Appendix One: Mythic Hero or Deviant Personality? (2009) (0)
Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities (review) (2003) (0)
APPENDIX: Fossil Frauds and Specious Legends (2013) (0)
11 Horses, Dogs, and Eagles (2014) (0)
PART 4 Beyond the Greek World (2014) (0)
19 Amazons at Sea (2014) (0)
[Kenya: scientific savanna]. (1996) (0)

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