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