Ancient Greek Technology

by Dionysios Kriaris Mathematician

As in each social phenomenon thus and in the technology in order to study it we should find her initial stages in order that we can watch her growth.
In the Greek space, a lot of technologies emanate from the Near East and find applications until the 6th B.C. century. Then however something important begins to happen in this space. A new activity (the science) is presented in the wider Greek territory, which surrounds the inheritance technology and gives her new impulse, with astonishing results.

The "science" is a clean Greek activity from which will result richly "fruits" for all the humanity.

The last 15 years my intense interest for the ancient technologies leads me to sources and texts of ancient treatise that is reported in machines tools and techniques that have relation with what today we name technology. The results of these researches are rich and very are interested. They bring in the light a unknown aspect of Ancient Greek Culture, who is overlooked from the modern bibliography and make me big surprise is absent completely from the school books. Afterwards the research the challenge was to manufacture certain from these machines and the tools, so that i realised also experimental how many feasible was their manufacture, but is checked also their functionalism, after in most cases are absent the archaeological discoveries.

Many of the copies that I have manufactured, have been presented in various exhibitions and museums in Greece but also in the abroad. Indicatively I expose certain from the more important exhibitions. In Thessalonica and in Athens in the frames of 1st and 2nd international congress being the ancient Greek technology, years 1997 and 2005, in the international report EXPO 2000 in the Hanover of Germany as well as in the international report of book in Frankfurt 2001. Certain manufactures are found in the museum of Alexandria in Egypt from 2002. Enough from them were presented in the report with title "EUREKA il gennio degli antichi" that became from the archaeological museum of Naples 2005. Many from the copies that I have manufactured are found in the museums of Greece, Technical Museum Thessalonica, Archaeological Museum Thessalonica, War Museum Athens and others.
My constructions and replicas of Antikythera Mechanism are also found in the following museums and reports in Greece and the other states of world, in the Children's Museum of Manhattan in the New York, from 2006, in the Museum of National Observatory of Athens which opens from 4 September, in the Ionic Center in Athens in the frames of report on the Antikythera Mechanism , in big report on the Ancient Greek Technology in Thessalonica titled "Greece and Technology – a diachronic approach" in the Telloglio Institution that organizes the Technical University of Thessalonica and in the Planetarium in Library of Alexandria in Egypt from November 2008.