And he's at the head of a substantial army composed of Bulgars and Slavs. It's now "Tiberius" Apsimar's turn to be deposed. He seals up Constantinople, but Justinian and a few frens creep in through an aqueduct.
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Peter Heather’s Rome Resurgent (mediocre) claims that Greek Fire was used during the time of Anastasius I. No citation so far as I can tell though. Just wrong?
There are sporadic attestations in the ancient world for the tactical use of naphtha (a petroleum substance), during sieges and so forth. Greek Fire (the crusaders' term for it, actually) as a particularly naval weapon, consisting of some kind of pump/flamethrower apparatus ...
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... mounted on Byzantine ships, is first attested in AD 671, in the great naval battles against the Arab fleets. I'd need to look into what exactly Heather's talking about, but I'd guess he just means some earlier use of naphtha.
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