
The First Fossil Hunters
Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
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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? Through careful research and meticulous documentation, Adrienne Mayor convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact - in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans.
As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories.
Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. By listening to these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.
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The book will be your strongest ally in combatting social awkwardness and will arm you with plenty of icebreaking pieces of trivia, suitable for any occasion. Following the success of my site RaiseYourBrain and numerous requests from readers, I decided to compile some of the most interesting facts in a book. That's why I decided to collect the best gems of breath-taking trivia and to present you a great compilation of verified facts, suitable for a broad audience. This is the result of years of sifting through history and reference books on a myriad of subjects as well as searching the ...
De: Nayden Kostov
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
- De: Joanne Greenberg
- Narrado por: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, 16-year-old Deborah is haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the outside world. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental hospital where she will spend the next three years battling to regain her sanity with the help of a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles toward the possibility of the "normal" life she and her family hope for, the listener is inexorably drawn into her private suffering and deep determination to confront her demons.
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Wonderful...unless you can't deal with mental heal
- De Linnie Karnaugh en 05-20-18
De: Joanne Greenberg
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Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws
- And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities
- De: Adrienne Mayor
- Narrado por: Nancy Crane, Adrienne Mayor
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Adrienne 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—embedded in myth, legends, and folklore. Combing through ancient texts and obscure sources, she has spent decades prospecting for intriguing wonders and marvels, historical mysteries, diverting anecdotes, and hidden gems from antiquity, medieval, and modern times. Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws is a treasury of fifty of her most amazing and amusing discoveries.
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Random Historical Information for the Noggin
- De leahck en 03-11-25
De: Adrienne Mayor
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The Monster's Bones
- The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
- De: David K. Randall
- Narrado por: Roman Howell
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, forever changing the world of paleontology, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy.
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Read like a children's book. Annoying.
- De M en 07-15-22
De: David K. Randall
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Pearl of the Desert
- A History of Palmyra
- De: Rubina Raja
- Narrado por: Christopher Hallett
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the 17th century, the ancient city gained legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third century CE rebelled against Rome and expanded Palmyra's territory into what is now modern Turkey and Egypt.
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Very Enjoyable, Scholarly
- De Jim Kane en 06-08-24
De: Rubina Raja
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Quiet Mists
- Northern Shores Cozy Mystery
- De: Heidi Hinrichs
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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Murder in the dunes: A new mystery series where dark secrets lurk beneath the surface, with a dash of humor to keep things afloat. On a fog-drenched night, the ferry from Norderney Island collides with a mysterious obstacle just outside Fleetstedt Harbor. One of the lifeboats breaks loose and sinks, though miraculously, no one is hurt. But before long, tragedy strikes again. The owner of the shipping company is found dead in what appears to be a tragic car accident. But Enna and Pavel aren’t convinced. They suspect the crash was no accident—it was murder. The shipowner had a knack for ...
De: Heidi Hinrichs
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Antony & Cleopatra
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
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In this remarkable dual biography of the two great lovers of the ancient world, Adrian Goldsworthy goes beyond myth and romance to create a nuanced and historically acute portrayal of his subjects, set against the political backdrop of their time. A history of lives lived intensely at a time when the world was changing profoundly, this audiobook takes listeners on a journey that crosses cultures and boundaries, from ancient Greece and ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire.
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Very good
- De Kdmd en 02-23-16
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Facing East from Indian Country
- A Native History of Early America
- De: Daniel K Richter
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States.
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Not quite what it purports to be
- De Buretto en 12-29-18
De: Daniel K Richter
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Empire of the Black Sea
- The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World
- De: Duane W. Roller
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over 200 years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties not founded by a successor of Alexander the Great. Previous histories of Pontos have focused almost exclusively on the career of its last ruler. Setting that famous reign in its wide historical context, Empire of the Black Sea is an engaging account of a powerful yet little-known ancient dynasty.
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More of an academic journal than a book.
- De Amazon Customer en 07-05-23
De: Duane W. Roller
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The Twin Paradox
- De: Charles Wachter
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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"The Twin Paradox is one of the best science thrillers to come along since Andy Weir's The Martian." — Chris Weitz, Screenwriter, Rogue One With ten years passing for every three minutes on a remote stretch of Texas coast, planes fall out of the sky, evolved species are on the hunt, and people die inside one of the most vicious ecosystems ever grown—all a result of the government’s efforts to slow down time. A lot can happen in ten years. That’s the point. Governments are always racing for supremacy, for scientific breakthroughs, for technological advantages—and these things take ...
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Great Sci fi!
- De T. Fabrizio en 05-13-25
De: Charles Wachter
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Antiquity
- From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire
- De: Norman F. Cantor
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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Best-selling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world - from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 BC in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome.
De: Norman F. Cantor
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The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries
- The Evidence and the People Who Found It
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite a history of controversy, the evidence for evolution continues to accumulate as a result of many separate strands of incredible scientific sleuthing. In The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution.
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Must Read for Novice Evolutionary Students
- De Robert J. en 08-10-24
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The Scythians
- Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
- De: Barry Cunliffe
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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The Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe.
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Well researched but narrator is terrible
- De John M. en 01-17-21
De: Barry Cunliffe