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

Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-

Gods and robots [electronic resource]: myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology / Myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology Adrienne Mayor. - 1 digital resource (xvi, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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

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.

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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Robotics--History.
Robots--Mythology.
Science, Ancient.
Science and civilization.
Technology--Religious aspects.
Inventions--History.
Technology and civilization.
Artificial intelligence--History.
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
Technology--History.--Rome
Technology--History.
Technology--History.--Greece
Technology--Religious aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Technology.
Science and civilization.
Inventions.
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence.
Science, Ancient.
Robotics.


Rome (Empire)
Greece.


Nonfiction.
History.

BL313 / .M446 2018

930 609/.01 629.892