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Greek Fire - aitor iriarte - 11-21-2005
On the OT thread on WP, it has turned out that the recipe for Greek fire is know or has been reconstructed.
I think that this is a good place to discuss on it... :wink:
Aitor
Re: Greek Fire - andym - 11-21-2005
Cool,who has managed to get the recepie right?I know a while back one of the History Channel teams were attempting this.
Re: Greek Fire - P. Lilius Frugius Simius - 11-21-2005
Maybe the Greek Army forum is a better place? ;-) )
greetings
PS- updated to correct some horrible typos :-P P
Re: Greek Fire - Carlton Bach - 11-21-2005
Well, it was used by the Rhomaioi...
Gen. James Riddick Partington wrote his 'History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder' in the 50s, including a full translation of the 'Book of Fires' which contains several recipes. Ever since, archeologisrts have tried these and related mixes. They works just fine (I thinki a team in Vienna even developed one that coud be fired from a gun). We may never know which one is 'it', though.
Good book, if you can get it, BTW. Pretty much all the literary evidence for fire weapons from Classical Antiquity collected.
Re: Greek Fire - hoplite14gr - 11-21-2005
There is the thing called "Theion Lefkados". Me and a friend are researching it. I will post more and with references when we are done.
I stand by my post in "white phosforus" thread about its possible use to reduce the Celtic hillforts. More to follow.
Kind regards
Stefanos