Do we really know how the Greeks (for 2,000 years) thought that Humanity, thanks to Technology, escaped Destruction? The Greeks believed that the gods themselves, after Creation, had given them Technology as an antidote to all the dangers of life in Nature. Such was indeed the fundamental importance the Greeks attached to Technology that, even for its side effects, they believed the gods had specially taken care to endow human beings with Ethos (“mutual respect” and “justice”).

This book first analyzes, in modern terms, these ideas of the Ancient Greeks, and then briefly records their great technical achievements from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic period, as a historical confirmation of the Greeks’ age-old love of technology.

This book, however, was also intended to be entertaining: that is why, for the most part, it describes various delightful episodes.

How Odysseus builds his ship with the help of the beloved Calypso.

What the robots were on the Island of the Phaeacians.

How the Mycenaeans drained Lake Copais.

How the Euboeans, after the Dark Ages, transplanted Greek Technology to Italy.

What the movable bridge of the Euripus was like in 400 BC.

How the Automata worked in Alexandria of the 3rd century BC.

And much more…