Person
Callinicus of Heliopolis
Craftsman (architektōn) from Heliopolis — Baalbek in Syria — who, according to Theophanes the Confessor, fled to the Byzantines around 672 and devised the “sea fire” later known as Greek fire.
- Events
- 1 event
- Regions
- Balkans and Anatolia
- In the threads
- Early medieval Europe (500–1000)
Events
- Invention of Greek firec. 672 · Balkans and Anatolia