As Greek mythology goes, the universe was once a big soup of nothingness. Then, two things happened: either Chaos or Gaia created the universe as we know it, or Ouranos and Tethys gave birth to the first beings.
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Adrienne
Mayor
ADRIENNE MAYOR is a research scholar in the Classics Department and History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Program at Stanford University.
She is the author of The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (Princeton 2014); The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths and Myths in Greek and Roman Times (Princeton 2000, rev. ed. 2011); Fossil Legends of the First Americans (Princeton 2005); Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World (Overlook/Duckworth 2003, rev. ed. 2009); The Poison King: Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy (Princeton 2010, National Book Award nonfiction finalist); and numerous scholarly and popular articles.
Her books are translated into 11 languages and her work is featured on NPR, BBC, History Channel, New York Times , USA Today, Smithsonian , and National Geographic. Mayor is a regular contributor at the award-winning history of science website WondersandMarvels.com.
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