Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs : : Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World /

Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs : : Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World / / Adrienne Mayor.

A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents of warfare modern inventions? Not by a long s...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t About the Author --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Historical Time Line --   |t Maps --   |t Introduction: War outside the Rules --   |t Chapter 1 Heracles and the Hydra: The Invention of Biological Weapons --   |t Chapter 2 Arrows of Doom --   |t Chapter 3 Poison Waters, Deadly Vapors --   |t Chapter 4 A Casket of Plague in the Temple of Babylon --   |t Chapter 5 Sweet Sabotage --   |t Chapter 6 Animal Allies --   |t Chapter 7 Infernal Fire --   |t Afterword. The Many-Headed Hydra --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Notes --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents of warfare modern inventions? Not by a long shot. In this riveting history of the origins of unconventional war, Adrienne Mayor shows that cultures around the world have used biological and chemical weapons for thousands of years—and debated the morality of doing so. Drawing extraordinary connections between the mythical worlds of Hercules and the Trojan War, the accounts of Herodotus and Thucydides, and modern methods of war and terrorism, this richly illustrated history catapults readers into the dark and fascinating realm of ancient war and mythic treachery. 
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