Greek_Fire

Greek Fire “GREEK FIRE” The original Greek fire was an invention used as a weapon of the Eastern Roman Emperors. It is also said to have been invented by a Syrian engineer, one Callinicus, a refugee from Maalbek, in the seventh century. The Byzantines of Constantinople originally used it. But they never used the term Greek fire because they claimed to be Romans, and never called themselves Greeks. It was like an insult to them because in their times to be Greek was to have a bad reputation. The Greek fire was first time used in the war of seven years. In which the Arabs established a naval base on the peninsula of Kyzikos. This was on the second attack of a battle stared by Theophanes. On the third attack of the same battle, Greek fire was used again against the Arabs. The “liquid fire” was hurled on the ships of their enemies from siphons and burst into flames on contact. As it was reputed to be inextinguishable and burned even on water, it fire, greek, secret, been, time, emperor, constantine, composition, said, recipe, one, never, made, chemist, century, weapons, under, sulfur, resin, put, porphyrogenitus, normans, lost, liquid, invented, introduction, incendiary, hydrogen, great, enemies, emperors, constantinople, claimed, chemists, called