Adrienne Mayor

Ancient Greeks not only created the foundations of modern civilization, but they also predicted robots and other future technological innovations, according to a book on the subject. Stanford University historian Dr. Adrienne Mayor, in Gods and Robots argues that Greek...

The fierce, fearsome, war-loving female warriors known as Amazons existed in ancient Greece, according to American historian Adrienne Mayor. The Stanford University historian's book The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World, reveals that such women...

Cleopatra, the Greek Queen of Ancient Egypt, whom a Netflix documentary has recently controversially portrayed as being black, and Marc Antony, the famous Roman general, conducted part of their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in...