Technological animation in classical antiquity / edited by Tatiana Bur, Maria Gerolemou and Isabel A. Ruffell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bur, Tatiana, editor.

Gerolemou, Maria, editor.

Ruffell, Isabel, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Classical--History and criticism.

Art, Classical.

Animism in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity' aims to establish the significance of technological animation within Greek and Roman societies. The chapters focus on artificial animation produced through technical procedures, exploring themes of agency, audience reception, and materiality.

Contents:

Cover

Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introducing the Technology of Animation in Classical Antiquity

Works Cited

Part I: Theories

1: The Axe's Heart Work: Technē and Animation in Homeric Craft Similes

The Animated Smithy Again

Woodcutter Similes in the Iliad and the Homeric Notions of Technē

Hector's Heart Work (Hom. Il. 3.60-63)

Tightening the Line of War (Hom. Il. 15.410-413)

The Technique of the Stronger Menos (Hom. Il. 17.742-746)

Conclusion

2: The Ideology of Automata: From Mesopotamia to Aristotle

From Mesopotamia to Hesiod

Homer

Psyche and Abstract Deity

Drama

Plato

Aristotle

3: An Ancient Grammar of Animation and Technē

Life and Self-Movement

Duplication and Similarity

Plato on the Logic of Imitation

Aristotle and the Logic of Imitation

Imitation in Aristotle's Poetics

4: Automatic Puppets, Toy Carts, and Robots: Aristotle's Metaphysics of Artifacts and the Question of Automata

Automata and Aristotle's Metaphysics of Artifacts

Automata and Toy Carts in De motu animalium

Automata Analogies in Aristotle's Embryology

Self-MovingRobots

Conclusion: Automata and Substantiality

5: Strange Loops: Experiment and Programme in Hero of Alexandria's Automata

Introduction

Automaton and Craftsman

Ancient Algorithms?

Part II: Contexts

6: From 'Dolls' to Puppets: Mechanisms and Purpose of Articulated Terracotta Figurines in Antiquity

Category One: Suspended Articulated

Bell-Shaped Figurines (Attic/Handmade Incised Ware)

Cypriot Articulated Figurines, 950-600 bce

Corinthian and Attic 'Dancers', 5th- 4th Centuries bce.

Bosporan Articulated Figurines

Category Two: Interactive Figurines and Puppets

7: Manufacturing Movement in Aristotle's Motion of Animals

Moved and Unmoved

8: Technolarynges in Classical Antiquity

Technological Reproduction of Voice

Human Speech Reproduction in Non-technicalSources

9: Speaking Doors: Voice and Materiality in Ancient Literature

To Open: Some Definitions from a Modern Perspective-Doors,Walls, Bridges, Windows

Ancient Doors

The Door's Activity: The Paraclausithyron as a Scenario of Negotiation

Doors with Human Voice

(a) Propertius 1.16

(b) Catullus 67

Automatic Doors: Live, Sound, Subjectivity

Material and the Lexicological Aspects of Describing a 'Door'

Lexicological Aspects: Words for 'Door' are Related to Movement and Crisis

Doors are Presented as Parts of a Door

Material Aspects of Doors and Their Elements

To Conclude: Voice and Materiality

10: Automata and Other Technological Devices in Trimalchio's Dinner-Party

Petronius and Hero of Alexandria: Three Caveats

Automatum and Automatarius

The Zodiac Dish

Self-OpeningCeilings (per parietem/per tectum)

The Priapus Dish

Trimalchio's Horologium

The Implications of the Automata for Trimalchio's Portrayal

Concluding Remarks

11: Dead or Alive? Giving Life to Bronze

The Materials of Bronze

Animation of Bronze

Myron

Lysippos and Lysistratos

Why Destroy a Bronze?

The Power of Bronze

Transformations, Rules, and Choices

Benvenuto Cellini Takes a Risk

Classical Bronzes Everywhere

The Berlin Foundry Cup

Lifelike Added Colours

Exhausted Boxer, Drunken Satyr

Statues that Serve

Mixed Messages: Constantinople.

The Intentions Behind Greek Bronze Statues

Part III: Audiences

12: Affecting Artifacts: Interacting with Objects in Archaic and Early Classical Greece

Hephaestus' Cauldrons

Hephaestus' Bellows

Forge and Furnace

13: Visualizing Time: The Lysippan Kairos in the Scientific Landscape of the Fourth Century bce

Introduction: Visualizing Time

Lysippan Kairos: The Evidence

Astronomy

Mechanics

Automata

The Phenomenological Reading of the Lysippan Kairos in the Scientific Landscape of the Fourth Century bce

14: Trains and Boats and Planes: Animating the Ship in Greek Culture

Boats

Trains

Planes

15: The Importance of the Construct: Technological Animation in Ancient Religious Contexts

The Wheels in the Temple Go . . .

Mechanical thauma

Pneumatics of Sacred Song

Zoomorphic Narratives

. . . Round and Round

The Final Word: Hero's Automata

16: Devising Nature

Imitating Living Beings

Technological Animation

Index Locorum

General Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 13, 2024).

ISBN:

9780191948312

0191948314

9780192672056

0192672053

OCLC:

1455630400