[PDF.97xm] Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

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 | #1204481 in Books |  Overlook Hardcover |  2003-09-29 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.76 x1.14 x6.22l,1.39 | File type: PDF | 319 pages

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||8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Utterly Fascinating|By John D. Cofield|Adrienne Mayor has breathed new life into ancient history by examining the evidence for biological and chemical warfare over two thousand years ago. There's a lot of material there, much of it gleaned from evidence found in classical mythology and Homer's epics. Mayor's dedication to arcane research makes her conclusions about the use o|From Publishers Weekly|This dense but highly informative volume narrates the long pretechnological history of the use of poisons and fire in warfare. Mayor, who has published in Military History Quarterly, begins with the first legend of poisoned arrows: Hercule

Weapons of biological and chemical warfare have been in use for thousands of years, and Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs, Adrienne Mayor's exploration of the origins of controversial weaponry, 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.

Drawing on sources ancient and modern, Mayor describes ancient recipes for arrow poisons, booby...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World   |  Adrienne Mayor. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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