TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mayor,Adrienne
TI  - Gods and robots [electronic resource]: myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology 
SN  - 9780691183510
AV  - BL313 .M446 2018
U1  - 930 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Robotics
KW  - History
KW  - Robots
KW  - Mythology
KW  - Science, Ancient
KW  - Science and civilization
KW  - Technology
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Inventions
KW  - Technology and civilization
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Rome
KW  - Greece
KW  - fast
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Nonfiction
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -