Abstract
The First Fossil Hunters Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. Adrienne Mayor. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000. 381 pp. $35, £21.95. ISBN 0-691-05863-6. Mayor, a classical folklorist, interprets Greek and Roman accounts of giant bones in light of modern vertebrate paleontology. She argues that many of the mythic monsters were grounded in the remains of long-extinct animals.
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