Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities - Adrienne Mayor

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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, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology , and The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (all Princeton). She is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University.