Gods and Robots. Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
44 Chapter 2 In the myth of the Dioscuri, when Castor was killed, Pollux asked to share his immortality with his brother. His wi ...
45 CHAPTER 3 THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY AND ETERNAL YOUTH THE ANCIENT GREEKS were obsessed with eternal youth and everlasting ...
46 Chapter 3 must honor Odysseus’s desire to build a raft to try to return to his wife, family, and friends, and to live out the ...
the quest for immortality 47 concept is evident in the name “Immortals” taken up by the Sassanid and Byzantine cavalries, by Nap ...
48 Chapter 3 death with one’s responsibility to live one’s brief, fragile life well and with honor: “Dying, too, is one of our a ...
the quest for immortality 49 Alexander the Great, collected in the Arabic, Greek, Armenian, and other versions of the Alexander ...
50 Chapter 3 In contrast to Qin Shi Huang’s anxieties about dying, Marcus Aurelius (Meditations 47 and 74) crystallized the Stoi ...
the quest for immortality 51 that he hoped for. Achilles died ignominiously because an arrow shot by an unseen archer homed in o ...
52 Chapter 3 with the monster’s venom, he possessed an unlimited supply of poison projectiles with their own chain of unintended ...
the quest for immortality 53 Ares freed Thanatos and delivered Sisyphus into the arms of Death. But then, once in the Underworld ...
54 Chapter 3 Fig. 3.1. Eos (Dawn) pursuing Tithonus, Attic red- figure cup, Penthesilea Painter, 470– 460 BC, inv. 1836,0224.82. ...
the quest for immortality 55 Hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess of love herself callously takes leave of her own mortal lover Anchis ...
56 Chapter 3 Idas and Apollo fought for her hand, but Zeus allowed the girl to chose between the suitors. Marpessa chose Idas be ...
the quest for immortality 57 as the Tithonus or old age poem. Lamenting that she is growing old and gray, Sappho recalls the myt ...
58 Chapter 3 Tantalus was another figure who was eternally punished for misdeeds against the gods. One of his crimes was his att ...
the quest for immortality 59 But human cells are naturally programmed to age and expire; bod- ies have evolved to be disposable ...
60 Chapter 3 gods? Even some unthinking animals enjoy more magnificent powers than do weak, vulnerable human beings. Another tho ...
61 CHAPTER 4 BEYOND NATURE ENHANCED POWERS BORROWED FROM GODS AND ANIMALS HOW DID HUMANS come to be weaker and more vulnerab ...
62 Chapter 4 fiction, the myth of Prometheus can be read as an early “explanatory account and as a symbol for the ongoing human ...
beyond nature 63 hope is the contrivance of humans’ inventive arts (mechanoen technas) which advances them sometimes to evil and ...
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