Adrienne Mayor (born 1946) is a historian of ancient science and a classical folklorist. Mayor specializes in ancient history and the study of "folk science"...
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A New History. Simon and Schuster. pp. 160–161. ISBN 9780743264426. Adrienne Mayor (2014). The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient...
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Philostratus, Amazon babies were not fed just with the right breast. Author Adrienne Mayor suggests that the false etymology led to the myth. Herodotus used the...
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the giants of Mount Prama Odyssey's Laestrygonians?". 2 June 2014. Adrienne Mayor, The First Fossil Hunters, p. 201, citing Thucydides. Thucydides, History...
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fraternal lodge, which wanted the skeleton for initiation purposes." Adrienne Mayor writes about the Si-Te-Cah in her book Fossil Legends of the First Americans...
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Essay Toward the Natural History of England". Mr. S. Miller's: 136–137. Adrienne Mayor (2001). The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek...
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News, January 6, 2023 Plutarch, "Sertorius 17.1–7", Parallel Lives Adrienne Mayor (2005), "Ancient Warfare and Toxicology", in Philip Wexler (ed.), Encyclopedia...
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Sept 1932. 244/1. Adrienne Mayor. The Poison King: the life and legend of Mithradates, Rome’s deadliest enemy. p.68 Adrienne Mayor. The Poison King: the...
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to simply an incised X". American science historian and folklorist Adrienne Mayor and British historian Tom Holland have both suggested that indigenous...
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Cantabrian circle L'esprit de l'escalier, also called staircase wit Adrienne Mayor: "The Amazons" | Talks at Google Belis, Alexis M.; Colburn, Henry P...
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(2005), p. 100. Mayor, Adrienne (November–December 1994). "Guardians of The Gold". Archaeology Magazine. 47 (6): 53–59. JSTOR 41766590.; Mayor (2011), pp. xvii...
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Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World, Adrienne Mayor argues there is no evidence to support the notion that the Ancient Greeks...
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Mongolia: A Record of Travel and Exploration in North-West Mongolia p415 Adrienne Mayor, Peter Dodson, The first fossil hunters: paleontology in Greek and Roman...
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produced by bacteria. Stanford University scientists Antoinette Hayes and Adrienne Mayor speculate that the waters of the Mavronéri were used to poison Alexander...
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"CBRNE – Chemical Warfare Agents", EMedicine, retrieved October 22, 2007 Adrienne Mayor, "Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical...
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saved the child from harm. In her 1992 paper The Ambiguous Guardians, Adrienne Mayor cites the fifth century AD narrative The Omen of the Wolf as an earlier...
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present-day water level is recorded at around 7,500 BP. The historian Adrienne Mayor theorizes that global flood stories may have been inspired by ancient...
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Cognition. 3 (2): 246–64. doi:10.1006/ccog.1994.1014. S2CID 54332622. Adrienne Mayor (2005). Fossil Legends Of The First Americans. Princeton University...
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Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2017. Adrienne Mayor (1 May 2016). "The Eagle Huntress: Ancient Traditions and New Generations"...
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March 2020. The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates by Adrienne Mayor, page 112 James, J (2015). "Rimbaud's ode to Jugurtha". Parnassus: Poetry...
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Vol 4 uchicago.edu Pindar, First Olympian Ode Pausanias, 5.13.1–3 Adrienne Mayor, The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Princeton...
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S2CID 129843177.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Adrienne Mayor (2001). The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek...
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Warriors Did Indeed Fight and Die Like Men". Retrieved 20 March 2018. Adrienne Mayor (2014). The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient...
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Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times (2000), Adrienne Mayor argues that some stories of dragons may have been inspired by ancient...
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Prometheus, 707–869", The Classical Review 60.1 (April 1946:2–4). Adrienne Mayor & Michael Heaney, ‘Griffins and Arimaspeans’ in Folklore, Vol. 104,...
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Nilsson, Geschichte, Vol I, p.495 Pausanias 1.29.2 Pausanias 1.29.2 Adrienne Mayor (22 September 2014). The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women...
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other pictures already scientifically proved. The classical folklorist Adrienne Mayor has proposed that the profusion of literary descriptions and imagery...
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Rüdiger Schmitt, Zarinaia was a legendary figure, while the historian Adrienne Mayor suggests that she was a historical figure. Zarinaia was the sister and...
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makers preserved on specimens. The folklorist and historian of science Adrienne Mayor of Stanford University has suggested that the exquisitely preserved...
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She read The Amazons by Adrienne Mayor to familiarize herself with women warriors and said "I used what I learned in Mayor's book as a rallying cry for...
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