The First Fossil Hunters
Subtitle: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: April 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780691058634
Subjects: Archaeology; Myths & mythology; Palaeontology; Paleozoology; Ancient World History; Science; Science/Mathematics; Science, Ancient; Rome; Ancient - General; History; Paleontology; Archaeology and Ancient History; Biological Sciences; Classics; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Social Science / Archaeology; Greece
First sentence: I BOARDED the overnight ferry from Athens to Samos, a Greek island just off the coast of Turkey, in the late summer.
Description: 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. This title shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact.