Flying snakes & griffin claws : and other classical myths, historical oddities, and scientific curiosities /

Flying snakes & griffin claws : and other classical myths, historical oddities, and scientific curiosities /

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A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels-and the surprising truths behind themAdrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights-glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth-embed...

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Main Authors: Mayor, Adrienne (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Mayor, Adrienne, 1946- (Author)
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Princeton, NJ : [2022]
Subjects:
Curiosities and wonders > ^A1009572
Curiosities and wonders
Folklore > ^A1018828
Folklore
HISTORY / Ancient / General
Adrienne Mayor
Amazons
Ancient Greek literature
Ancient Greek
Ancient history
Ancient literature
Ancient warfare
Anecdote
Archaeology
Aristeas
Athens
Author
Beak
Biological warfare
Brooch
Cartography
Certainty
Chapter 33 (G.I. Bill of Rights)
Classical mythology
Classics
Cross-reference
Cryptid
Cryptozoology
Curator
Dinosaur egg
Dog food
Drawing
English language
Essay
Fairy
First Book
Franz Kafka
Goatherd
Griffin
Gustave Flaubert
Herodotus
Illustration
Josiah Ober
Latin literature
Legendary creature
Libation
Library stack
Literature
London Review of Books
Low culture
Magazine
Manuscript
Martyr
Memoir
Military history
Miscellany
Museum of the Rockies
Mythology
Origin story
Paleontology
Popular Science
Popular culture
Popular science
Pottery
Printmaking
Publication
Quadrupedalism
Revised Version
Saronic Gulf
Satyr
Scientist
Scythia
Scythians
Sea monster
Shapeshifting
Sigmund Freud
Skepticism
Sports Afield
Storytelling
Susanna (Book of Daniel)
Tattoo artist
Tattoo
Textbook
The Myth of Persecution
The Venerable
Tours
Trace fossil
Triceratops
Unicorn horn
Website
Writing
Electronic books

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