Slate, the on-line magazine, has kind of a cool -- if basic -- pictorial history of the use of monsters in ancient maps.
The story gets at one of the elements of fantasy that is often missing from RPG-play -- the sense of wonder, discovery and strangeness.
The fact that people literally didn't know where they were in the greater context of the world (and its natural laws) until the 18th century created a lot of the myth that underlies Pathfinder.
Find the Slate piece here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2304214/
--Marsh
