Gods and Robots. Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
144 Chapter 7 Homer describes the ever- vigilant hounds as “deathless and ageless.” Some interpret the myth to indicate that the ...
hephaestus 145 handles, which have not yet been attached. Bronze tripods, three- legged stands for basins or cauldrons, were ubi ...
146 Chapter 7 By the third century BC, Alexandria, Egypt, with its grand library and museum, had become a center for mechanical ...
Fig. 7.10. Apollo seated on his tripod flying over the sea with dolphins and other marine crea- tures. Attic red- figure hydria, ...
148 Chapter 7 literary and artistic evidence shows that the idea of flying “machines” in the form of wheeled chariots was curren ...
hephaestus 149 disperse knowledge of agriculture over the earth, traveling in an airborne chair. Among the many ancient sources ...
150 Chapter 7 the mechanical serving girls” and then placed “within them mind, wits, voice, and vigor” (noos, phrenes, aude, sth ...
hephaestus 151 remarkable ships of the Phaeacians, inhabitants of the technologically marvelous land encountered by Odysseus, in ...
152 Chapter 7 Hephaestus sets in motion twenty bellows that are self- operating and self- adjusting according to his needs. In t ...
hephaestus 153 Today, the ancient speculative fantasy that machines could free many workers from drudgery and replace slaves has ...
154 Chapter 7 more relevant example of Hephaestus’s female automata endowed with mind, strength, knowledge, and voice. 43 The im ...
hephaestus 155 Around the time that Homer was describing Hephaestus’s intelligent Golden Maidens on Mount Olympus, the poet Hesi ...
156 CHAPTER 8 PANDORA BEAUTIFUL, ARTIFICIAL, EVIL TO PUNISH MORTALS for accepting fire stolen from the gods, Zeus commanded ...
pa n dor a 157 As in the Old Testament story of Eve and the serpent, the Pan- dora myth blames a woman as the agent of mankind’s ...
158 Chapter 8 head a splendiferous crown of gold decorated with daedala, intricately worked miniature sea and land monsters so l ...
pa n dor a 159 and Peitho give her charm and the power of persuasion, while Aphrodite fills her with irresistible sex appeal (Pa ...
160 Chapter 8 of his brother’s warning, writes Hesiod, Epimetheus “took the gift and understood too late.” As a being that was m ...
pa n dor a 161 is a Campanian amphora, attributed to the Owl Pillar Group, a circle of Etruscan artists who made clumsy but char ...
162 Chapter 8 the Polygnotus Group, shows the upper half of a female, apparently Pan- dora, flanked by satyrs with hammers. A si ...
pa n dor a 163 of Athena, this scene includes no helmet or weapons. The goddess pre- senting wreaths to the figurine appears to ...
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