Fragments Of A Bronze Calculator recovered from a shipwreck off Anticythera, south of Greece. Part of
a consignment of metal-work. statuary and objets d'art destined for Italy in the first half of the first
century B.C. the mechanism employed a highly elaborate system of inter meshing gears to operate a
series of rotating dials which indicated the conjunctions of various calendars and astronomical
phenomena. It was probably operated by hand.
Roman Imperialism
The central debate turns on the question: in what sense was Rome imperialist? It was once thought that
Rome was not an aggressive power; that she had few contacts with the Greek world in the third century,