[PDF.47mz] The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

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 | #207989 in Books |  2011-03-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x6.00 x1.00l,1.23 | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant piece of scholarly detective work, beautifully written.|By Susan E. Wood|Whether your passion is classical archaeology, paleontology, folklore, ancient literature, ancient history or the history of science, or if you just enjoy seeing a brilliant piece of interdisciplinary scholarship convincingly argued, this book is a MUST. Mayor has connected the dots between dis| |Adrienne Mayor has . . . done some digging deep into the past and found literary and artistic clues--and not a few huge fossils--that seem to explain the inspiration for many of the giants, monsters, and other strange creatures in the mythology of antiquity. -

Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Foss...

You easily download any file type for your device.The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times   |  Adrienne Mayor. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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