Archaeology Odyssey

Philostratus, On Heroes 8:3–14.

Pausanias, Guide to Greece 9.18.2–5, 1.35.3, 3.3.7.

Karl Schefold, Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992), pp. 150, 314.

John Boardman, “Very Like a Whale—Classical Sea Monsters,” in A.E. Farkas et al., eds., Monsters and Demons in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Papers Presented in Honor of Edith Porada (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1987), pp. 73–84.

Cornelius Vermeule, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bulletin 61 (1963), p. 162.

See Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993), vol. 1, pp. 400–402. Portions of this article are based on my paper, “The ‘Monster of Troy’ Vase: The Earliest Artistic Record of a Vertebrate Fossil Discovery?” Oxford Journal of Archaeology (February 2000), pp. 57–63; and on my The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2000).

Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, “The Mycenaeans in Western Anatolia and the Problem of the Origins of the Sea Peoples,” in Mediterranean Peoples in Transition: Thirteenth to Early Tenth Centuries B.C.E., Seymour Gitin, Amihai Mazar and Ephraim Stern, eds. (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1998), pp. 17–65.

Ahmet Ünal, Ahmet Ertekin and Ismet Ediz, “The Hittite Sword from Bogazköy-Hattusa, Found 1991, and its Akkadian Inscription,” Müze 4 (1991), pp. 46–52; Ahmet Ertekin and Ismet Ediz, “The Unique Sword from Bogazköy/Hattusa,” in Aspects of Art and Iconography: Anatolia and Its Neighbors. Studies in Honor of Nimet Özgüç, Machteld J. Mellink, Edith Porada, and Tahsin Özgüç, eds. (Ankara, 1993), pp. 719–725.