Adrienne Mayorさんのイラストまとめ

Ukrainian postage stamp "Scythian Amazon"
2002
#AncientAmazons spirit!

Amazons in cityscape, Roman frescoes
#AncientAmazons

@MetalClassicist @CarlyASilver @stickfiguregods Many toxic plants known in antiquity described in my forthcoming book #GreekFirePoisonArrows
available for pre-order

Medea the ancient hacker & Pandora's black box
https://t.co/OHcnafooPG

@DeborahofNevada @LakotaMan1 linguist-botanist S.Endlicher corresponded w inventor of Cherokee language Sequoyah & combined his name with Latin sequi ("follow") to describe giant redwood genus by no of seeds per cone aligned in math sequence w 4 previous genera.
So "Sequoia" is descriptive & honors Sequoyah

@ancientlyric @sentantiq @ArmandDAngour @digkabri @rogueclassicist Plague was metaphorically attributed to Apollo's arrows or arrows of Hittite goddess Irra.
Centaur Nessus was killed with Heracles' arrows dipped in the venom of the Hydra serpent--representing arrows actually tipped with viper venom in antiquity
#GreekFirePoisonArrows

'This revised &updated edition of Mayor’s trailblazing study of ancient biological & chemical weapons couldn’t be timelier. Every page full of insight, originality & erudition, delivered in powerful prose'—Barry Strauss, The War That Made the Roman Empire

@CarlieP @KFILE no because the Gata mask filter (which is changeable) does not touch nose or mouth

Red Cabbage "snowflakes"
HT Anzar M. Madi

@afilipek3 deer stones, 3-15 ft high carvings on granite about 2,500-3000 years old scattered over the eastern steppes, so your Scythian girl would definitely ride past them in her own time.