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  Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World (Paperback) By (author) Adrienne Mayor

  

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  Short Description for Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs This work catapults readers into the dark and fascinating realm of ancient war and mythic treachery--and their devastating consequences. Mayor recounts in lively, sometimes darkly comic detail, the diabolical stratagems devised by devious warriors for tactical ends.--"Discover."
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  • Publisher: Overlook Press
  • Published: 01 January 2009
  • Format: Paperback 319 pages
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  • Categories: Chemical & Biological Weapons | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Military History
  • ISBN 13: 9781590201770 ISBN 10: 1590201779
  • Sales rank: 221,522

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• "A comprehensive look at WMD's antecedents, from flamethrowers of the Peloponnesian War to plague-bearing booby traps.... Rich and entertaining." -"Newsweek" "Featuring a new introduction by the author." Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease... are these terrifying agents and implements of warfare modern inventions? Not by a long shot. Weapons of biological and chemical warfare have been in use for thousands of years, and "Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs," Adrienne Mayor's fascinating exploration of the origins of biological and unethical warfare draws 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. "Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs" will catapult readers into the dark and fascinating realm of ancient war and mythic treachery-and their devastating consequences.