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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Mayor, Adrienne,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.) :; 10 color + 34 b/w illus. 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • About the Author
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Historical Time Line
  • Maps
  • Introduction: War outside the Rules
  • Chapter 1 Heracles and the Hydra: The Invention of Biological Weapons
  • Chapter 2 Arrows of Doom
  • Chapter 3 Poison Waters, Deadly Vapors
  • Chapter 4 A Casket of Plague in the Temple of Babylon
  • Chapter 5 Sweet Sabotage
  • Chapter 6 Animal Allies
  • Chapter 7 Infernal Fire
  • Afterword. The Many-Headed Hydra
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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