[new_guy]

Not as out of place as popular media would have you believe. Ancient civilizations had analog computers, automatons, steam engines etc the Romans were responsible for destroying most of it, they were only interested in weapons tech, set us back at least two thousand years.

Further reading: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/14162.html

[mc32]

Your reference only says that their myths proposed some advanced ideas not that they executed or realized those ideas.