Is there a way to believably incorporate humanoid, sentient artificial

>>51482685
>Having issues with robots
>In greco-roman setting
I would recommend learning the history of the word 'robot' and expand upon what you find.

>>51482685
>Is there a way to believably incorporate humanoid, sentient artificial intelligence into an Ancient Greco-Roman setting?

No, unless you count lolmagic as believable.

>>51484264
>Historical illiterate
>>51482746
>Not historically illiterate

Just do an alt-history where Hero of Alexandria was way more successful and famous and as a result steam-powered robots are everywhere.

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>>51482685
Repeat after me:
>Hephaestus and Daedalus under a tree...

Seriously, any greek mythology bestiary which doesn't include an 'automotones' categgory is a hack.

http://www.theoi.com/Ther/Automotones.html

>>51482685
Jewish stone golems that have defeated their masters and begun trading with the Greeks.

>>51484707
>Jewish stone golems that have defeated their masters and begun trading with the Greeks.
Fuck this is golden

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>>51484313
Steam, clockwork, and rope friction, all in concert. When a new mechanical is "born" its "life" is a divine program, that is perfectly set to every action they will take throughout their existence. They are literally powered by their string of fate wound up like a spring.

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>>51484673
What he said.

Alternatively, you can make a sci-fi setting with a greco-romain paintjob.

>>51482685
I remember a greco-roman setting with sci-fi elements such as genetic modification and artificial intellegence somewhat based on classic physics in a gurps magazine.
Interresting enough to dump it here or not ?

>>51488929
There's also Age of Decadence, which is a post apocalyptic greco-roman setting with sci-fi elements such as genetic modification and artificial intellegence.

>>51482746
>>51484673
>>51488906

Pretty much this. Hephaestus and Daidalos both crafted functioning automata, the most famous being the bronze giant Talos who tirelessly patrolled the shores of Crete against raiders.

Just have some of these remain in your settings as leftovers of a more advanced or mystical age like the Greek Age of Heroes/Golden Age and you're fine.

>TFW the Antikhythera device is a fragment of an ancient automaton-crafting STC

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>>51482685
>>51484673
>>51484707
>>51489499
Building upon this and some choice scp stuff, one could link the Bronze Age Collapse with a automata rebellion, or a war in which automata.

Talos Mk. II fought golems made from Holy Land earth which fought alchemically powered Sphinx sarcophagus.

Greek fire, the heliograph solar ray network, all great weapons were liberally used.

Imagine, galleys and their rams as actual, clockwork huge torpedos encased on wood, sea chariots of champions in dendra-like archaic power armor.

Your setting is 500 BC, 700 years after this "Golden Age". And as agents of the Kythera Island, your mission is to ensure this disaster never happens again.

http://www.scp-wiki.net/automata-et-cetera

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2217

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2406

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