Bones of the Gigantomachy
How does one make the skeleton of Hercules? Take a bunch of mastodon bones and mix well. In her excellent book The First Fossil Hunters, author Adrienne Mayor explains, in fascinating detail, how Classical myths of giants, dragons, titans, heroes, and other ill-formed monstrous beings often stemmed from a misunderstanding of the fossil record. After…
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