TECHNOLOGY IN ANCIENT GREECE: AN ADVENTURE

Looking through ancient Greek technology, this brilliant field of arts and sciences, we come across the various achievements that laid the ground for the works and culture of today. Among them, the author singles out and thoroughly records: the feats of Hercules (in which we can find what is essentially hydraulic works); the flight of Daedalus and Icarus (which may have been accomplished through mechanical means); the voyages of Scylax and Nearchus, during which they explored a large part of the unexplored until then globe, how Greek astronomy conquered the Arabs and how it influenced Indian astronomy between 700 and 100 B.C. The way in which unknown Greek texts reached the West through the Arabs, thus transferring knowledge and contributing greatly to the Renaissance – the interest of ancient medicine and pharmacology in the mandrake plant – and finally, the musical instrument hydraulis, which is given in detail, thus completing the fascinating adventure into unknown places of ancient Greek thought.