Adrienne Mayor is the author of THE POISON KING: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, ROME'S DEADLIEST ENEMY (Princeton), a finalist for the National Book Award and named one of the best books of 2009 by the Washington Post. Her other books include GREEK FIRE, POISON ARROWS, and SCORPION BOMBS: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World (Overlook) and THE FIRST FOSSIL HUNTERS: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times (Princeton). She is a research scholar in classics and history of science at Stanford University.

Books by Adrienne Mayor

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

by Adrienne Mayor - History, Nonfiction

Amazons --- fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world --- were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. But just who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting and sexual freedom? National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the Amazons as they have never been seen before. This is the first comprehensive account of warrior women in myth and history across the ancient world, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Great Wall of China.