So, like, she's saying that the ancients could put together, and memorize poems like Iliad and write allegorical works like the ones in Old Testament, but couldn't put together bronze devices? Man, what fruitcake. And, wasn't the Zohar, the book of the Kaballah written in this time as well? If I got the book right, that is. From what I understand, there's pretty subtle math in that one. Seems to me that the ancients tended to disseminate knowledge through initiation in which you had to prove to some master that you were smart enough to figure it out anyway. I digress. My key point is that ancient man was damned smart, but they had to start from scratch every time.