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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Greek Fire: The Byzantine Secret Weapon

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

To engage the ships of Byzantine Empire was to risk the horrors of Greek fire, a medieval weapons system that empowered ships to spew forth flaming liquid on enemy ships and crew members. The secrets of Greek fire are lost to history, but historians and s

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wherever you get your podcasts. Imperial Exios ordered ships to be furnished by all the countries

1:35.2

under the Roman sway. He had a number built in the capital itself and would at intervals go

1:40.5

around and instruct the shipwrites how to make them. As he knew that the peasants were skilled in

1:46.1

sea warfare and dreaded a battle with them, on the prow of each ship he had a head fixed to

1:50.7

a lion or other land animal, made in brass or iron with the mouth open and then gilded over

1:56.2

so that their mere aspect was terrifying. And the fire which was to be directed against the

2:02.0

enemy through tubes he made to pass through the mouths of the beast so that it seemed as if the

2:06.7

lions and the other similar monsters were vomiting the fire.

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