Gods and Robots
Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
1st Edition
Published on 14. January 2019
304 pages
978-0-691-18544-6 (ISBN)
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Adrienne Mayor is the author, most recently, of The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World and The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy, which was a finalist for the National Book Award (both Princeton). She is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University and lives in Palo Alto, California.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. Made, Not Born
- 1 The Robot and the Witch: Talos and Medea
- 2 Medea's Cauldron of Rejuvenation
- 3 The Quest for Immortality and Eternal Youth
- 4 Beyond Nature: Enhanced Powers Borrowed from Gods and Animals
- 5 Daedalus and the Living Statues
- 6 Pygmalion's Living Doll and Prometheus's First Humans
- 7 Hephaestus: Divine Devices and Automata
- 8 Pandora: Beautiful, Artificial, Evil
- 9 Between Myth and History: Real Automata and Lifelike Artifices in the Ancient World
- EPILOGUE. Awe, Dread, Hope: Deep Learning and Ancient Stories
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
