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Greek fire, poison arrows, and scorpion bombs : biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world / Adrienne Mayor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayor, Adrienne, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biological weapons--History--To 1500.
- Biological weapons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 pages)
- Edition:
- [Revised and updated edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "A history of the ways in which ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional warfare, drawing on myth, science, and history and told Mayor's scrupulous, yet entertaining style"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. War outside the rules
- Heracles and the hydra : the invention of biological weapons
- Arrows of doom
- Poison waters, deadly vapors
- A casket of plague in the Temple of Babylon
- Sweet sabotage
- Animal allies
- Infernal fire
- Afterword. The many-headed hydra.
- Notes:
- Previous edition published by Overlook Press in 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691211091
- 0691211094
- OCLC:
- 1311316334
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