Legend of Talos

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The Argonautica is an ancient story that just like The Illiad or The Odyssey tells the deeds of the Greek heroes of the mythological era. Led by the intrepid Jason, another son of the god Zeus, a contingent of the great and brightest of the mythological Greece set to recover the magnificent Golden Fleece and thus they sail on board of the strong ship called Argo (which is why they are called the Argonauts). They encounter all sort of challenges until they finally recover the fleece. On  their way back they arrive to the island of Crete guarded by a gigantic man made of metal who walked around the island three times a day in order to guard it  and whenever an enemy stepped on the island shores it murdered the invaders. It was said that in order to kill all trespassers Talos put his chest over fire thus heating up his chest and then he "hugged" his victims instantly killing them as a result. Of course, Jason and the Argonauts managed to defeat Talos not without some magic help.

What is extraordinary in this tale is that this is one of the few stories in Greek mythology that mentions sentient metal men. Curiously, no other story in Greece talks about giant metal creatures, only the Argonautica (there are examples of metal animals though). Could it be that the figure of Talos was inspired on a true metal man who was perhaps not sentient but looked so? Talos does suspiciously sound like a giant humanoid robot.  What if Talos indeed existed and was the last of a group of extraordinary machines similar to robots? What if the science that created them existed but was lost to us? One may argue that in the past such level of science was impossible, but who says so is we and just precisely becauseour mindset it is difficult to at least consider such possibility, but they had all the time of the world.
I said it before and I´ll say it again: there is so much we don´t know yet.