Gods and Robots. Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
64 Chapter 4 The effects of the drug as described in the Argonautica put one in mind of synthetic psychoactive stimulants: for e ...
beyond nature 65 aggression, override moral qualms about killing or torture, erase negative thoughts, and obliterate memories of ...
66 Chapter 4 human” artificial intelligence, she now takes advantage of the coding imprinted in the sown army. Medea advises Jas ...
beyond nature 67 The second example presents a more technologically sophisticated version of fire- breathing bulls. In Persian l ...
68 Chapter 4 Since antiquity, human augmentations and enhancements in the form of modern prosthetics have advanced to high l ...
beyond nature 69 biomechanics made a finely carved artificial toe for a woman whose mummy was discovered in 1997 near Luxor, Egy ...
70 Chapter 4 conflicting accounts— and as a reflection of the dual status of Daedalus as both a mythical character and a real hi ...
beyond nature 71 Ancient Greek sources tell of an interesting deception involving a troop of fake “war elephants” that looked an ...
72 Chapter 4 with a live bull. The details in the myth of Pasiphae’s zoophilia compel one to visualize the grotesque sex act mad ...
Fig. 4.2. Daedalus, with saw, making a realistic cow for Pasiphae, Roman relief, first to fifth century AD, Palazzo Spada. Photo ...
Fig. 4.3. Pasiphae and the baby Minotaur, red- figure kylix found at Vulci, fourth century BC, Cabinet des Medailles, Paris. Pho ...
beyond nature 75 to tie one end to the entrance of the Labyrinth and unroll the yarn, so that after killing the Minotaur he can ...
Fig. 4.4. Daedalus making wings for Icarus at his workbench, ancient Roman relief, Museo di Villa Albani, Rome, Alinari / Art Re ...
Fig. 4.5. Icarus with wings, small bronze figure, about 430 BC, inv. 1867,0508.746. © The Trustees of the British Museum. ...
78 Chapter 4 the king of Crete is pursuing his escaped captive, looking for Daedalus in all the major cities across the Mediterr ...
beyond nature 79 “Taitale,” Daedalus’s name in Etruscan. On the other side is Medea with her cauldron, inscribed with her Etrusc ...
80 Chapter 4 The earliest Greek representation of Daedalus is on a vase of about 570 BC: he is wearing wings and carrying an axe ...
beyond nature 81 More than a hundred ancient images of Icarus and Daedalus are known. Many of them show Daedalus at work surroun ...
82 Chapter 4 classical Greece, primitive diving bells, described by Pseudo- Aristotle (Problems 32.960b32), already allowed deep ...
beyond nature 83 Daedalus too returned to earth. As we saw, he landed in Sicily and found refuge from King Minos in the court of ...
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