In its towering stature, we see the elite nature of bronze craftsmanship at the time, as well as the military prowess of bronze weaponry. On one hand, Talos stands as a potential metaphor for the might of bronze technology during the Greek Bronze Age, stretching from 3200 to 1200 B.C.E. While myths can reveal much about history and culture, this episode also concerns the nature of technology. With magic and deception, she pulled a bronze nail from Talos' heel and drained the vital ichor fluid (or blood of the gods) from its body, reducing the mighty guardian to a heap of lifeless metal.īut as we discuss on the podcast, Talos is far more than a mere curio amid other tales of gods and heroes. Ancient spoiler alert: Jason and the Argonauts were able to overcome the bronze man (described variously as a giant or a human-sized entity) only with the aid of the sorceress Medea. Wherever he came from, his appearance in Greek myth mostly revolves around his demise. Later tellings even cast him as the work of Daedalus, the mythic inventor of the Minoan maze and the wings of Icarus. Some accounts describe him as the last survivor of an ancient race of bronze men, but the more popular versions attribute his creation to Hephaestus, god of the forge. There, the great protector stalked the shores, hurling rocks at unidentified sea vessels and embracing any enemy brave enough to land in an immolating red-hot bear hug. When our heroes reached the island of Crete, they encountered a bronze automaton created in the likeness of a man. Talos, as Joe McCormick and I discuss on this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, emerged from the tales of Jason and his Argonauts – a band of heroes that in some ways stands as a proto-superhero team.
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