Mayor The First Fossil Hunters

Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
With a New introduction by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3844-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Mayor, Adrienne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. vii
ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. ix
INTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION, pg. xiii
GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE, pg. 1
Introduction, pg. 3
Historical Time Line, pg. 11
CHAPTER 1. The Gold-Guarding Griffin: A Paleontological Legend, pg. 15
CHAPTER 2. Earthquakes and Elephants: Prehistoric Remains in Mediterranean Lands, pg. 54
CHAPTER 3. Ancient Discoveries of Giant Bones, pg. 104
CHAPTER 4. Artistic and Archaeological Evidence for Fossil Discoveries, pg. 157
CHAPTER 5. Mythology, Natural Philosophy, and Fossils, pg. 192
CHAPTER 6. Centaur Bones: Paleontological Fictions, pg. 228
APPENDIX 1. Large Vertebrate Fossil Species in the Ancient World, pg. 255
APPENDIX 2. Ancient Testimonia, pg. 260
Notes, pg. 283
Works Cited, pg. 333
Index, pg. 351

Über Autor(innen)

Adrienne Mayor’s books include The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Fossil Legends of the First Americans (both Princeton). She is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University.