Mayor, Adrienne,  1946- <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691183510 0691183511 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018938106 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB8G2603  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>019039484  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Robotics--History.<br/>Robots--Mythology.<br/>Science, Ancient.<br/>Science and civilization.<br/>Technology--Religious aspects.<br/>Inventions--History.<br/>Technology and civilization.<br/>Artificial intelligence--History.<br/>Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.<br/>Technology--History.--Rome<br/>Technology--History.<br/>Technology--History.--Greece<br/>Technology--Religious aspects.<br/>Technology and civilization.<br/>Technology.<br/>Science and civilization.<br/>Inventions.<br/>Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.<br/>Artificial intelligence.<br/>Science, Ancient.<br/>Robotics.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Rome (Empire)<br/>Greece.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Nonfiction.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL313  / .M446 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>930 609/.01 629.892