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Greek myths have some scary ideas about robots and A.I.

This page was created by Marc Carlson It was last edited 9 June All dates given are estimates based on the internal evidence in the myths. Age of the beginning of adult adventures, unless given specifically in the myths, is assumed to be about Duration of the reigns of kings of Alba Longa is assumed to be 30 years. Again, these are approximations.

social and cultural highlight of the Ancient Greek calendar for almost 12 centuries. it is easy to see why the Games were a key date in the diary for Greeks everywhere. strength, it became a fountain of wondrous stories and stirring myths.

Most ancient cultures saw pictures in the stars of the night sky. The earliest known efforts to catalogue the stars date to cuneiform texts and artifacts dating back roughly years. These remnants, found in the valley of the Euphrates River, suggest that the ancients observing the heavens saw the lion, the bull, and the scorpion in the stars.

The constellations as we know them today are undoubtedly very different from those first few–our night sky is a compendium of images from a number of different societies, both ancient and modern. By far, though, we owe the greatest debt to the mythology of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The earliest references to the mythological significance of the Greek constellations may be found in the works of Homer, which probably date to the 7th century B.

In the Iliad , for instance, Homer describes the creation of Achilleus’s shield by the craftsman god Hephaistos: On it he made the earth, and sky, and sea, the weariless sun and the moon waxing full, and all the constellations that crown the heavens, Pleiades and Hyades, the mighty Orion and the Bear, which men also call by the name of Wain: she wheels round in the same place and watches for Orion, and is the only one not to bathe in Ocean Iliad XVIII At the time of Homer, however, most of the constellations were not associated with any particular myth, hero, or god.