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Originally Posted by 3rdvogon
I thought I would do a little bid of Googling on this subject and top of the hit list as you would expect came Wikipedia which had this to say:[snip]
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That's an excellent piece of writing, 3rdvogon.
And frankly, real history (or for that matter, mythology
in the form it was originally intended to be) is far more
interesting than "Hey wow, aliens gave them antigravity!" nonsense, although that sort of thing can make for enjoyable fantasy novels.
As has been observed, Homer wrote about robots - suits of armour that walked around and did skilled smithy tasks for Hephaestus. Well actually they were not robots in the sense we mean. They had magic animating spirits in them, not servo motors and microprocessors, because Homer didn't know about these things.