Did humanoid robots exist in the ancient Greece? Are the accounts of them purely fictional? Can they be the distant echoes of some events that took place at the dawn of modern humankind? We will not jump to conclusions. Instead, we will take a closer look at the ancient mythology from the point of view of historical retrospective.Legend has it that Hephaestus, the ancient Greek god of fire, metalworking and handicrafts, “forged” two dozen copper tripods, which could move about the place “on the golden wheels” as if they were self-propelled (or automatic?).The devices are said to have been used forrendering services to gods who visited Hephaestus.
Could they be some kind of a remote-controlled robot or automatic means of transporting?
Hephaestus had a limp, and therefore he also “forged” two maids who were made of gold.
Those maids were “strong,
sensible and could express themselves in words.” They supported
Hephaestus by the hand while accompanying him during outings, waited on
him, and amused him with their singing. They “were in possession of
every piece of knowledge taught by the immortal gods,” according to
Homer’s Iliad.
Another Greek myth says
about the “copper giant” named Thalos, which was also made by
Hephaestus. Zeus ordained that the giant should defend the island of
Crete. Thalos had an all-metal body topped with a horned head. There
was asingle artery running from top to toe of his body. The artery was
plugged with a “copper nail.” The copper giant patrolled the island,
and kept the enemy ships at bay by throwing rocks at them. He was also
a mouthpiece of Minos, a king of Crete.
Thalos began throwing “red
flame” around him after the enemy invaded Crete. Thalos managed to send
the enemies running. However, the sorceress Medea outsmarted the giant
with the help of “false visions.” Then she took the plug out of the
artery, and the giant’s black oily blood came rushing onto the ground.
As a result, Thalos’s strength thinned out. Crete became extremely
vulnerable to enemy attacks.
In terms of technology, the
following analogies fall into place if we see the story of Thalos
through the eyes of a twenty-first-century man: the “black oilybloo......
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