ANTINOUS THE GAY GOD

THE WORLD'S FIRST MUSEUM

OF ANCIENT GREEK TECHNOLOGY

IN GREECE this summer on vacation?

Check out the ANCIENT GREEK TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM in the seaside town of Katakolo near the site of ancient Olympia in western Greece.

Opened in 2005, it houses hundreds of Greek technological inventions and mechanisms ranging from 2000 BC up to the time of Hadrian and Antinous when Hellenism was in fashion in Rome. It is said to be the most detailed exhibition of its kind on a world scale.

The museum's exhibits include:

• The Alarm Clock of Plato (the first wake-up mechanism in history)
• Automatic Opening of the Temple Gates after sacrifice on its altar (the first building automation in history)
• The "Static" Automatic Theatre of Heron of Alexandria (the first “cinema” in history)
• The Hydraulic Clocks of Ktesibios (the first precise automatic clocks in history)
• Heron's Aeolosphere (the first steam machine in history)
• The Automatic Maid (the first operating robot in history)
• "Odometer" (the first road counter in history)
• The Movable Automatic Theatre of Heron of Alexandria (the first automated "puppet show" in history)
• Crane With Winches for the elevation of mast and load (the first elevating mechanism in history)
• Perpendicular Mycenaean loom
• The "Web" of Penelope (Odysseus’ wife)
• The Catapult "Palindonos", (the first siege machine in history)
• Bale-fires and Beacons (the first telecommunication method in history)
• Acoustic Telegraph (the first acoustic radar in history)
• Elevating Mechanism of Two-Sided Elevation (the first port building crane in history)
• Hysplex (the first starting mechanism in history)
• Ancient Greek musical instruments