Greek fire is the combustible mixture that was used with the military aims during the medieval times. First it was used by Byzantines during the maritime battles. The exact structure of the Greece fire is unknown.

The fire was always interesting to people and people tried to conquer it and to use it from the first moments they saw it. And it is necessary to say that they really succeeded.

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Salamander is the spirit of the fire and its incarnation according to medieval beliefs and magic. People believed that salamanders were living in any open fire. Very often it was described as the little lizard. Some people even consider salamander to be the special substance of the fire.

The fire is able to destroy everything on its way from forests to live people if it is uncontrolled, but at the same time fire is able to warm, to cook dinner for us, to build things we need for every-day life. But to do that the fire must be controlled and carefully kept.

The Olympic flame

The Olympic flame is one of the symbols of the Olympic Games. It is set to fire in the city of the Olympic Games place during the inauguration ceremony and it is burning without stopping till the end of the Games.

The tradition of the Olympic flame existed in the Ancient Greece during the holding of the Ancient Olympic Games. The Olympic flame was the symbol that remembered about the deed of Prometheus that stole the fire from Zeus and gave it to people according to the legend.

This tradition was reborn in 1928 and is kept till nowadays. During the Olympic Games in 1936 the first relay race of the Olympic flame were held in Berlin. More than 3000 runners took part in the getting of the jet to Berlin from Olympia. During the Winter Olympic Games the flame was set to fire in 1936 and in 1948 but the relay race was first held in 1952 before the Olympic Games in Oslo.

Usually the right to set the flame to fire is given to the famous person usually to the sportsman. But there may be exceptions from the rule. It is considered to be the great honour to set the flame to fire during the ceremony.

Nowadays the Olympic flame is set to fire in Greece in the ancient city Olympia several months before the Olympic Games beginning. Eleven women usually actresses that play the role of the priestess hold the ceremony in which one of the actresses sets the flame to fire with the help of the mirror that focuses the sunrays. After it the flame is carried to the city that receives the Olympic Games.

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