Gods and robots : myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology /

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"The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life--and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Gr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mayor, Adrienne, 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
To 1500
Robots > Mythology.
Robots > History > To 1500.
Artificial life > Mythology.
Artificial life > History > To 1500.
Technology > Religious aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Mythology.
Mythology
Vie artificielle > Mythologie.
Technologie > Aspect religieux.
Technologie et civilisation.
Mythologie.
mythology (literary genre)
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Artificial life.
Robots.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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