🦃 Cozy up with autumn reads! Let our AI Librarian pick your perfect fireside book 🍁
Explore the literary world of this author
Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
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 archenemie...
Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how t...
How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science
Follow along as research scientist Adrienne Mayor searches for the origins of the mythical griffin - could such a creature be based in reality? While ...
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, muc...
The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
A compelling biography of the legendary king, rebel, and poisoner who defied the Roman Empire Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalt...
Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World
A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war Flameth...
Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classi...
Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
With the news full of talk about bioterrorism and chemical weapons, Mayor's exploration of the origins of biological and unethical warfare is an atten...
Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
...
And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities
A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels—and the surprising truths behind them Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, scie...
"Battle mysterious monsters, join a quest with a courageous hero, and feast and frolic with the gods [in this introduction to mythology around the wor...