num_pages: 336
description: Drawing on sources ancient and modern, Mayor describes ancient recipes for arrow poisons, booby traps rigged with plague, petroleum-based combustibles, choking gases, and the deployment of dangerous animals and venomous snakes and insects. She also explo
language: English
title: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
titlecomplete: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
genres: War, Greece, Microhistory, Science, Nonfiction, Ancient History, World History, Military History, Military Fiction, History
ratings_count: 840
publisher: Abrams Press