Adrienne Mayor is the author of The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome\'s Deadliest Enemy , which was a finalist for the National Book Award, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology , and The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (all Princeton).
She is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University..
Adrienne Mayor is the author of The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome\'s Deadliest Enemy , which was a finalist for the National Book Award, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology , and The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (all Princeton)