This was probably justifiable. The problem with Greek fire is that it made such an impression on observers that they wrote of any incendiary substance vaguely similar to it as “Greek fire”(The Byzantines themselves didn’t use this term, they called it liquid fire or sea fire). Hide Caption 2 of 28 An explosion rocked a Greek-operated oil tanker docked at Saudi Arabia's port of Shuqaiq on Wednesday, Greek officials said, in an attack that a … The widespread usage of Greek Fire would be a far greater loss to the Byzantines then the loss of a single battle. ... Fire destroys Greek camp leaving 13,000 without shelter. DLTK's Countries and Cultures - Greek Mythology How Prometheus Gave Fire to Men. Published ... What happened at Moria? written by James Baldwin, adapted and illustrated by Leanne Guenther-- based on Greek mythology. The Greek prime minister has convened an urgent meeting of cabinet ministers after a devastating fire gutted the overcrowded Moria migrant facility … Refugees and migrants carry their belongings as they flee from a fire burning at the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, on Sept. 9, 2020. The Greek authorities advised people to “just leave” their homes, saying it was “an extreme situation”. A Greek Air Force helicopter hovers over a military area near Panagiouda as officials prepare a tented area for people displaced by the fire. The facility on the Greek island of Lesbos, designed for fewer than 3,000 people, has been destroyed. The Byzantines used Greek Fire rarely, presumably out of fear that the secret mixture might fall into enemy hands. The Greek genocide (Greek: Γενοκτονία των Ελλήνων, Genoktonia ton Ellinon), including the Pontic genocide, was the systematic killing of the Christian Ottoman Greek population of Anatolia which was carried out during World War I and its aftermath (1914–1922) on the basis of their religion and ethnicity. Many years ago, according to the stories told by the people of ancient Greece, there lived two brothers who were not like other men, or like the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus. Europe's largest migrant camp, Moria, has been "completely destroyed" after massive fires broke out early Wednesday at the overcrowded site on Greece's Lesbos island, according to an eyewitness. The Ptolemies, throughout their dynasty, spoke Greek and refused to speak Egyptian, which is the reason that Greek as well as Egyptian languages were used on official court documents such as the Rosetta Stone. There are however two known incidents of the Byzantines using this weapon. The name derives from the Greek components: ΚΛΕΟΣ -ΠΑΤΉΡ =father's glory. Greek Fire was an ancient superweapon devised, and used to great effect, by the Byzantine Empire.Its exact recipe was a jealously guarded secret that has now been lost to the ages. Across the Greek islands before the fire, more than 23,000 people were crammed into camps built for just 6,000, according to recent statistics compiled by aid groups.