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

Fig. 5.5 (plate 7). Realistic bronze and marble statues. Upper left, face of the Hellenistic bronze
Boxer of Quirinal (Terme Boxer). Album / Art Resource, NY. Upper right, beard and mouth with
silver teeth, Riace bronze statue A, found in bay of Riace, Calabria, Italy, in 1972, thought to be the
work of Myron of Athens, 460– 450 BC. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Reggio Calabria, Erich
Lessing / Art Resource, NY. Lower left, marble arm of the Discus Thrower, Roman copy of the
classical Greek bronze original by Myron of Athens, 460– 450 BC. Museo Nationale Romano,
Rome, © Vanni Archive / Art Resource, NY. Lower right, athlete, fourth to second century BC,
recovered off the coast of Croatia in 1996, Museum of Apoxyomenos, Mali Losinj, Croatia. Photo
by Marie- Lan Nguyen, 2013.