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

(Tina Meador) #1

illustrations xiii



  • 1.11. Sir Artegall and the automaton Iron Knight Talus

  • 1.12. Modern Talos missile

  • 1.13. Modern TALOS special operations uniform

  • 2.1. Medea rejuvenates a ram in her cauldron as Pelias watches

  • 2.2. Medea demonstrates the rejuvenation of a ram

  • 2.3. Medea and the daughters of Pelias prepare the cauldron

  • 2.4. Medea and Jason restore Aeson’s youth in the cauldron

  • 2.5. Pelias approaches Medea’s cauldron

  • 3.1. Eos (Dawn) pursues young Tithonus

  • 3.2. Eos and Tithonus in love

  • 3.3. Old Tithonus turning into a cicada

  • 4.1. Prometheus bleeding ichor

  • 4.2. Daedalus makes a realistic cow for Pasiphae to enter

  • 4.3. Pasiphae and the baby Minotaur

  • 4.4. Daedalus makes wings for his son, Icarus

  • 4.5. Icarus tries on his wings

  • 4.6. Icarus flying over the sea

  • 4.7. Daedalus hovers over the body of Icarus on beach

  • 4.8. Daedalus cradles his dead son, Icarus

  • 5.1. Realistic Bronze Ram of Syracuse

  • 5.2. Golden honeycomb, lost- wax process

  • 5.3. Sculptor Phidias making a human statue

  • 5.4. Athena visits a sculptor making a true- to- life horse

  • 5.5. Realistic bronze and marble statues of antiquity

    • late Roman 6.1. Prometheus molds the first humans, with Minerva,

    • late Roman 6.2. Prometheus creating the first humans, with Minerva,

    • carnelian gem 6.3. Prometheus using plumb line to construct first human,

    • frame, sardonyx 6.4. Prometheus makes head and torso of first man on

    • carved gem 6.5. Prometheus making the first humans and animals,

    • framework 6.6. Prometheus molding first man’s torso on skeleton

    • human, scarab 6.7. Prometheus attaches arm to skeleton of the first

    • arm, carnelian gem 6.8. Prometheus constructs skeleton, using mallet to attach

    • Etruscan gem 6.9. Prometheus sitting on rock, affixing arm to skeleton,



  • 6.10. Prometheus attaches arm to skeleton, carnelian scarab

  • 6.11. Prometheus uses mallet to make skeleton, chalcedony gem

    • son, Achilles 7.1. Hephaestus shows Thetis the marvelous armor for her

    • and leg armor 7.2. Bronze “muscle” cuirass and greaves, realistic chest



  • 7.3. “Heroic” muscle armor

  • 7.4. Blacksmith at work with tools

  • 7.5. Ancient blacksmith tools

  • 7.6. Argus with many eyes

  • 7.7. Hephaestus (Sethlans) making an animated horse

  • 7.8. Athena making a statue of a horse

  • 7.9. The Golden Hound

  • 7.10. Apollo’s flying tripod

  • 7.11. Triptolemus in his flying chair

  • 8.1. Hephaestus creating Pandora, neoclassical gem

  • 8.2. Hermes presents Pandora to Epimetheus, neoclassical gem

  • 8.3. Epimetheus meets Pandora

  • 8.4. Zeus admiring Pandora

  • 8.5. Athena and Hephaestus place finishing touches on Pandora

  • 8.6. Pandora admired by the gods and goddesses

  • 8.7. Detail, Pandora ready for her mission on earth

  • 8.8. Kore, statue of young woman with enigmatic smile

  • 8.9. Evil female robot Maria in film Metropolis (1927)

  • 8.10. Pandora compared to modern evil robot Maria, collage

  • 8.11. Zeus contemplates Hope peeping out of Pandora’s jar

  • 8.12. Hope grinning as she emerges from Pandora’s jar

  • 9.1. Phalaris burns Perilaus in the Brazen Bull

  • 9.2. Colossi of Memnon

  • 9.3. Coin issued by Spartan tyrant Nabis

  • 9.4. Theater of Heron, replica

  • 9.5. Guardians of Buddha’s relics

  • 9.6. Buddha defended by Heracles- Vajrapani

  • 9.7. Imaginary Buddhist guards as robots

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