A. GREEKS, GIANTS, MONSTERS, AND WAR
One scholar who has
been collecting precisely such accounts, legends and traditions,
and doing so with a great deal of skill and analytical
thoroughness, is Adrienne Mayor. Her works, Fossil Legends of the First Americans and
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in
Greek and Roman Times, are not only the only such thorough
studies, they are magisterial catalogues of obscure references and
traditions all but forgotten to paleontological science.385