The exhibition of Xenophon Moussas

Professor Xenophon Moussas, of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, has built up over the years an exhibition on the Antikythera Mechanism: twenty-two panels that begin with the object itself and widen out to the Greek scientific tradition that made it possible — Pythagoras and the first experiments in physics, Ionian astronomy, atomic theory, Aristotle, Hellenistic science, Ptolemy’s geography. The exhibition exists in Greek, English, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Polish, Russian, Swedish and Albanian.

This page lists the panels and marks which ones are available in Italian. The files are hosted by the University of Athens: the links point there.

The Italian version

Six panels already exist in Italian in the bilingual version prepared by the author (PDF, 2026), and panel 13 is trilingual. In September 2026 a further fourteen panels were translated into Italian — the ones that did not exist in that language — for the Syracuse exhibition: atomic theory, Aristotle, Alexander, Hellenistic science, the three geography pages, Greek archaeoastronomy and astronomy, the first experiments in physics, the shipwreck, Hipparchus, how the mechanism works, and the calendars.

The mechanism’s calendar and Syracuse

The calendar panel carries a detail that bears directly on Sicily. The month names inscribed on the Metonic dial belong to the Corinthian family; Moussas follows the Epirote identification and notes that the same calendar shares seven month names with Syracuse and with Tauromenion, as well as with Bouthrotos, Corfu and Ambracia.

This is a documentary link between the mechanism and the Greek cities of Sicily, independent of the question of Archimedes: Syracuse was a Corinthian colony and shared its calendar tradition. The precise geographic attribution remains under discussion (Freeth, Jones, Steele & Bitsakis, Nature 2008, for the Corinthian family; Iversen 2017 for Epirus), but the shared names hold under either reading. The subject returns on the Conference page.

Credits

Exhibition texts, panels and images: © Xenophon Moussas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Published on his pages. This page indexes and translates them; it does not republish them.