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ANCIENT and EARLY MODERN

  • Theophrastus.  De Igne.  Ed. Victor Coutant.  Assen: Royal Vangorcum, 1971.
  • Marcus Graecus. Liber Ignium. Trans. J. R> Partington in A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder (Cambridge: Heffers, 1960).
  • Robert Boyle. The Aerial Noctiluca: or Some New Phoenomena and a Process of a Factitious Self-Shining Substance (London, 1680).
  • Thomas May, trans. Lucan's Pharsalia: or the Civill Warres of Rome, between Pompey the great, and Julius Caesar (London, 1631).
  • G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven and M. Schofield. The Presocratic Philosophers, 2nd ed. Cambridge UP, 1983 (1957)

MODERN

  • Jacob Abbott, "Military Pyrotechnics of Former Days: The story of Greek fire, the “wonderful combustible." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 39.229 (June 1869).
  • Zayn Bilkadi, “The Oil Weapons: Ancient Oil Industries”, Aramco World (Jan.-Feb. 1995): 22-7.
  • Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power.  Trans. Carol Stewart.  London: Phoenix, 2000 (1962).
  • Alfred Crosby.  Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History.  Cambridge UP, 2002.
  • John Emsley, The Shocking History of Phosphorus, a Biography of the Devil’s Element.  Macmillan, 2000.
  • R. J. Forbes, Bitumen and Petroleum in Antiquity.  Leiden: Brill, 1964.
  • Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman, A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Chemical and Biological Warfare.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
  • Sohail Hashmi and Steven Lee, eds. Ethics and WMD. Cambridge UP.
  • Adrienne Mayor, Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bomb: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World.  New York, London and Woodstock: Overlook Duckworth, 2003.
  • James Riddick Partington, A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder. Fwd by Sir Frederick Morgan. Cambridge: Heffers, 1960.
  • David Park, The Fire Within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light.  Princeton UP, 1997.
  • Alex Roland, “Greek Fire”, MHQ: A Journal of Military History 2 (Spring 1990): 16-19.
  • David Sansone, “Plutarch, Alexander, and the Discovery of Naphtha’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 21 (1980): 63-74.
  • Malvern Lumsden. Incendiary Weapons. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1975.
  • W.H. Spears, Jr. Greek Fire: The Fabulous Secret Weapon That Saved Europe (1969).
  • Richard E. Threlfall, The Story of 100 Years of Phosphorus Making, 1851-1951.  Oldbury: Albright and Wilson, 1951.
  • Ernest Volkman, Science Goes to War: The Search for the Ultimate Weapon, from Greek Fire to Star Wars.  New York: John Wiley, 2002