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

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Plate 8 (fig. 7.7, top).
Hephaestus (Sethlans)
and assistant (Etule)
making an artificial horse
(Pecse), Etruscan bronze
mirror, fourth century
BC, from Orvieto, BnF
Cabinet des Medailles,
Bronze.1333.


Plate 9 (fig. 7.8).
Athena making a clay
model of a horse; she is
holding a handful of clay
and there is a pile of clay
at her feet. Above left, a
saw, drill, and bow drill.
The horse’s back leg is
unfinished. Athenian
red- figure wine jug,
about 460 BC, F 2415.
Bpk Bildagentur / Photo
by Johannes Laurentius
/ Antikensammlung,
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
/ Art Resource, NY.
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