Adrienne Mayor

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...

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...