Screen LibraryGreek fire, poison arrows, and scorpion bombs : unconventional warfare in the ancient world /
"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"--
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Revised and updated edition. |
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| 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"-- |
| Item Description: | Previous edition published by Overlook Press in 2003. |
| Carrier Form: | xxxvi, 384 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-361) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691217819 0691217815 |
| Index Number: | UG447 |
| CLC: |
E929-09 E931-09 |
| Call Number: | E931-09/M473/rev. & upd. ed. |
| 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. |