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but there moved swiftly to support their lord handmaidens wrought of gold in
the semblance of living maids. In them is understanding in their hearts, and in them
speech and strength, and they know cunning handiwork by gift of the immortal gods.
for he was fashioning tripods, twenty in all, to stand around the wall of his
well-builded hall, and golden wheels had he set beneath the base of each that of
themselves they might enter the gathering of the gods at his wish and again return to
his house, a wonder to behold.
Originally posted by geobro
i have read of robots in other cultures to 6bc egypt historys by herodotus
Originally posted by geobro
i have read of robots in other cultures to 6bc egypt historys by herodotus
Originally posted by SeekingDepth
Jason & the Argonauts Loved watching this movie over & over when I was growing up.
Talos scared me to pieces.
In Argonautica, Apollonius notes that the ichor ran out like molten lead. A.B. Cook first suggested that the single vein closed by a nail or plug referred to the lost-wax method of casting; Robert Graves (whose interpretation of Greek mythology is controversial among many scholars) suggests that this myth is based on a misinterpretation of an image of Athena demonstrating the process of lost-wax casting of steel, which Daedalus would have brought to Sardinia.
The story of Talos is an interesting one for us moderns, but believing it is true discounts the perennial fertility of human imagination. Talos was neither the first fictional robot nor the last.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 New International Version (NIV) 9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Do not discount the abilities of Ancient cultures or overestimate our modern abilities.
The Antikythera Machine
And you say Crete had no defensive walls?
Originally posted by SLAYER69
As far as Egypt having robots. The closes thing I can think of was when it was explained to the Greeks how they built the Great Pyramids it was mentioned or mistranslated as such that they used "Machines" How they were made or what of or even what those were we'll never know.