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aitor iriarte Offline
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11-21-2005, 07:09 PM
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:

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11-21-2005, 07:19 PM
Cool,who has managed to get the recepie right?I know a while back one of the History Channel teams were attempting this.
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11-21-2005, 08:14 PM
Maybe the Greek Army forum is a better place? ;-) )

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11-21-2005, 08:21 PM
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.
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11-21-2005, 08:43 PM
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.
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