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Gods and Robots : myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology / Adrienne Mayor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robotics--History.
- Robotics.
- Robots--Mythology.
- Robots.
- Science, Ancient.
- Mythology.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2018.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 The Robot and the Witch: Talos and Medea p. 7
- 2 Medea's Cauldron of Rejuvenation p. 33
- 3 The Quest for Immortality and Eternal Youth p. 45
- 4 Beyond Nature: Enhanced Powers Borrowed from Gods and Animals p. 61
- 5 Daedalus and the Living Statues p. 85
- 6 Pygmalion's Living Doll and Prometheus's First Humans p. 105
- 7 Hephaestus: Divine Devices and Automata p. 129
- 8 Pandora: Beautiful, Artificial, Evil p. 156
- 9 Between Myth and History: Real Automata and Lifelike Artifices in the Ancient World p. 179.
- ISBN:
- 0691183511
- 9780691183510
- OCLC:
- 1060968156
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