Gods and Robots. Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
164 Chapter 8 fastening the shoulder of Pandora’s gown and Hephaestus is placing a crown on her head (his trusty hammer is in hi ...
pa n dor a 165 detail reinforces the idea that Pandora was made, not born. The same tool motif also appears prominently in the b ...
166 Chapter 8 mentioned by Hesiod as contributors to Pandora’s manufacture. More- over, the gods appear to be talking among them ...
Fig. 8.7 (plate 14). Detail, Pandora admired by gods and goddesses, on the red- figure calyx krater by the Niobid Painter, about ...
Fig. 8.8. Kore statue with enigmatic “archaic smiles.” Left, the Peplos Kore, painted marble, about 530 BC, Acropolis Museum, At ...
pa n dor a 169 The scene on this magnificent vase— with the unusual “special effect” of the artificial young woman staring fixed ...
170 Chapter 8 In the film, Maria’s diabolical robotic doppelgänger is characterized by her hypnotic, “slow, irresistible movemen ...
pa n dor a 171 to Pliny (36.4), writing in the first century AD, the scene on the base depicted Pandora attended by twenty gods ...
172 Chapter 8 Further evidence of the scene’s popularity in Athens was discovered in the Athenian Agora. Since 1986, fragments h ...
pa n dor a 173 the evils swarm out. When the lid is slammed down— by Pandora’s hand but by Zeus’s design— one spirit is trapped ...
174 Chapter 8 A bearded Zeus contemplates a large pithos with a small girl peeping out of the jar. She is Elpis/Hope, confined i ...
pa n dor a 175 that the potter was inspired by his fellow Boeotian Hesiod’s description of Elpis/Hope in Works and Days, written ...
176 Chapter 8 world is so troubled? The modern fairy- tale version of the myth casts Hope as a merciful spirit that remained beh ...
pa n dor a 177 The mystery of Elpis/Hope trapped in the jar of evils resists reso- lution. The best interpretation may be that H ...
178 Chapter 8 Zeus— that Asimov’s fourth law applies. Pandora breaks the so- called Zeroth Law, which Asimov added later: a robo ...
179 CHAPTER 9 BETWEEN MYTH AND HISTORY REAL AUTOMATA AND LIFELIKE ARTIFICES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD SO FAR WE have considered h ...
180 Chapter 9 The history of real mechanical designs and practical inventions, from artillery, the catapult, and theatrical tech ...
between myth and history 181 As Ovid (Metamorphoses 8.189) envisioned the myth, Daedalus created his human enhancement of fl ...
182 Chapter 9 Contriving artificial human enhancements based on bird wings for torture and entertainment was not confined to the ...
between myth and history 183 bronze bull. It was hollow, with a trapdoor or hatch big enough for a man to enter. Perilaus presen ...
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