Gods and Robots. Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

216 epilogue Released from Pandora’s jar— much like the computer viruses let loose by a sinister hacker who seeks to make the wo ...

awe, dread, hope 217 who had memorized myriad tales from lost civilizations. She saved her own life by reciting these enchanting ...

218 epilogue The rise of a Robot– Artificial Intelligence “culture” no longer seems far- fetched. AI’s human inventors and mento ...

219  GLOSSARY  agency. The capacity, condition, or state of acting, operating, or exerting power or energy in a given environm ...

220 glossary automation. The technology by which action is performed without human assistance. automaton, automata. A self- movi ...

glossary 221 robot, bot. Complex and ambiguous to define, but a robot usually is a machine or self- moving object with a power s ...

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223  NOTES  CHAPTER 1. THE ROBOT AND THE WITCH: TALOS AND MEDEA Apollonius Argonautica 4.1635– 88; Apollonius (Hunter trans.) ...

224 Notes to Pages 12–22 When “thinking machines express anxiety about their own demises” it is “surely a sign of ‘consciousness ...

Notes to Pages 23–27 225 on automaton “self- moving” puppets, 358. Devices made by Hephaestus are “ani- mated by divine power,” ...

226 Notes to Pages 28–34 Bloodletting was thought to have beneficial value in healing various ailments. Hip- pocrates On the Na ...

Notes to Pages 34–43 227 Ovid Metamorphoses 7.159– 293; Clauss and Johnston 1997, 33– 34; Godwin 1876, 41; Newlands 1997, 186– ...

228 Notes to Pages 45–52 CHAPTER 3. THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY AND ETERNAL YOUTH Mayor 2016. “Cheating Death” 2016. Raphael 2015 ...

Notes to Pages 52–61 229 Hansen 2002, 36– 38. Felton 2001, 83– 84. Sisyphus: Apollodorus Library 1.9.3– 5 and Frazer’s note 3, ...

230 Notes to Pages 62–68 Rogers and Stevens 2015, 1– 3. On modern “Human Enhancement Technologies [HET],” see Lin 2012 and 2015 ...

Notes to Pages 68–75 231 These and the following archaeological examples of prosthetics, see Nostrand 2015. James and Thorpe 19 ...

232 Notes to Pages 80–90 Etruscan bucchero olpe found at Cerveteri (Caere), ancient Etruria, Lane Fox 2009, 189. Boeotian Corin ...

Notes to Pages 91–97 233 Pseudo- Aristotle On Marvelous Things Heard 81; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Daeda- lus; Diodorus Sicul ...

234 Notes to Pages 97–105 Haynes 2018. Pliny’s artistic descriptions, books 34– 36. Quintilian Inst. 12.7– 9; Lucian Philopseud ...

Notes to Pages 105–110 235 Hard 2004, 96. Raggio 1958, 45. Sappho frag. 207 (Servius on Virgil). Simons 1992, quote 28; from mu ...