Bronze and Iron Age Technology based around legendary inventors and inventions of the ancient world, both historical (Archimedes, Hero of Alexandria, aeolipile, Antikythera mechanism...) and mythical (Hephaestus, Daedalus, bronze automata...). Alternatively, Ancient Astronauts (or Atlantis) impact the dawning classical civilization.
SandalPunk focuses on the classical period or the ancient world before the Middle Ages, usually Ancient Rome, or Ancient Greece, or both, sometimes with hints of The Trojan War.