Adrienne Mayorさんのイラストまとめ

Ukraine = homeland of Amazons since antiquity
#AncientAmazons
#ModernAmazons

Where is this fossil now?
discovered in antiquity by Greeks in Pleistocene peat fossil beds at Megalopolis & placed on acropolis of Nichoria, discovered in 1970s by Ripp Rapp/Minnesota Messinia Expedition, misplaced until 1997, described in my #FirstFossilHunters
#FossilFriday

Delighted to be interviewed for this long, illustrated article for Women's Day in Oslo, Norway's news Vart Land!
https://t.co/Hv6qbklWns

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