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University of Athens member of the Academy of Sciences of Torino (IT) doctor honoris causa of Liege University (BE), S.E. The lecture presents details of the following categories of Automata, developed mainly in Alexandria:ĭrawings and pictures of models of Automata in operation will be presented. In addition, during the real Greek history of the Myceneans and the Archaic Greeks, Technology rapidly developed to such an extent that Automata started being designed and were already functioning in the time of Aristotle, and up to their culmination during the Hellenistic Period. Besides, the Greek Gods had also offered to humans various Automata and Robots. Murphy)ĪBSTRACT: The Greek tribes, since the 2 nd millennium BCE, were so devoted to Technology, that they had even imagined their Gods as users of several Automata operating in the Gods’ and Goddesses’ Palaces. Hero of Alexandria, On Automaton-Making 22.3-4 (transl. These figures moved, some sawing, some working with axes, some with hammers, others using bow-drills and augers, making a lot of noise, just as would happen in real life.” They were made to portray some of the Greeks repairing their ships and busying themselves about launching them.

When the stage was first opened, twelve painted figures appeared, arranged in three rows. “…The story adapted in it was the one about Nauplios.