Gods and robots [electronic resource]: myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology / Adrienne Mayor.

By:

Mayor, Adrienne, 1946- [author.]

Material type:

TextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 digital resource (xvi, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780691183510
0691183511

Other title:

Myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology

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DDC classification:

930
609/.01 23
629.892 23

LOC classification:

BL313 .M446 2018

Contents:

Introduction: made, not born -- The robot and the witch: Talos and Medea -- Medea's cauldron of rejuvenation -- The quest for immortality and eternal youth -- Beyond nature: enhanced powers borrowed from gods and animals -- Daedalus and the living statues -- Pygmalion's living doll and Prometheus's first humans -- Hephaestus: divine devices and automata -- Pandora: beautiful, artificial, evil -- Between myth and history: real automata and lifelike artifices in the ancient world -- Epilogue. Awe, dread, hope: deep learning and ancient stories.

Summary: Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index.

Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.

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