Adrienne Mayor

Adrienne Mayor is a research scholar in the Classics Department and History and Philosophy of Science Program, Stanford University. In 2018-19, she was a Berggruen Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She is the author of The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World; The First Fossil Hunters; Fossil Legends of the First Americans; Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Weapons in the Ancient World; a biography of Mithradates, The Poison King (National Book Award nonfiction finalist); and Gods and Robots.