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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
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