Gods and Robots. Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
24 Chapter 1 of the eponymous Bronze Age. In the subsequent Iron Age, arcane bronze and bronze- making technologies retained an ...
the robot and the witch 25 Talos might have symbolized or alluded to lost- wax casting in the Bronze Age. Like other bronze figu ...
26 Chapter 1 core of the now- formless mass was pierced by a hollow bronze rod, from head to feet. This tube allowed the melting ...
the robot and the witch 27 science contexts, ichor denoted the watery, amber- colored blood serum of mammals. Moreover, in the A ...
28 Chapter 1 and artists placed the nail that sealed Talos’s “blood vessel” at the most logical anatomical place, corresponding ...
the robot and the witch 29 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) to Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (D ...
30 Chapter 1 Talus takes his job literally. Becom- ing an inflexible killing machine without mercy, Talus is a symbol of an inhu ...
TALOS IN THE MODERN WORLD The solitary conduit carrying the myste- rious force that animated Talos has been compared to an alter ...
Talos was “approved as the name for the new ramjet missile” in 1948. The Talos guided missiles patrolled the seas mounted on lar ...
33 CHAPTER 2 MEDEA’S CAULDRON OF REJUVENATION IN THE FURTHER adventures of Jason and the Argonauts, the sorceress Medea agai ...
34 Chapter 2 traditions about the aftermath of the legendary Trojan War, set in the Bronze Age. These old tales were first writt ...
Medea’s cauldron of rejuvenation 35 The myth of Jason and Medea in Iolcos continued with the usurper Pelias murdering member ...
36 Chapter 2 to reconcile ambiguities in the literary sources and various artistic il- lustrations. Details do not always agree, ...
Medea’s cauldron of rejuvenation 37 astonishment, when Medea stepped from the room, the ugly crone had transformed into a beauti ...
38 Chapter 2 Rams, lambs, and cauldrons figure in all of the literary and artistic versions of Medea’s rejuvenation tales. T ...
Medea’s cauldron of rejuvenation 39 Fig. 2.3. Medea with the daughters of Pelias, preparing the cauldron, Roman copy of a fifth- ...
40 Chapter 2 Fig. 2.4. Medea and Jason reassure an old man with staff (Pelias?), as a younger man (Aeson rejuvenated?) emerges f ...
Medea’s cauldron of rejuvenation 41 The ram- and- lamb motif in Medea’s mytho- scientific process prefigures a modern scient ...
42 Chapter 2 Meanwhile, the anxious ambivalence summoned by the idea of arti- ficially meddling in the most basic natural proces ...
Medea’s cauldron of rejuvenation 43 youth (chapter 3). In another myth, Heracles’s nephew, the old hero and Argonaut Iolaus, pra ...
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