270 index
HUMANS (television show), 31
humans and human nature: ancient specula-
tion on, 29, 213; artificial creation of, 105–
6, 114–26; automata as means of inquiry
into, 29; autonomy of, 122–23, 157; hope
and, 175–77; Mill on, 241n39; natural life-
span associated with, 48, 229n26; Pandora
as punishment for, 156–58, 160–61, 172;
Prometheus as creator of, 105–6, 112, 113 ,
114–27, 156; in reference to immortality,
45–46; weakness of, 60, 61
Huxley, T. H., 123
Hydra, 51
Hyginus, 70, 109, 127
Ibycus, 57
Icarus, 75–81, 76–80, 181
Icarus Cup, 84
ichor, 8, 10, 11, 13, 24, 26–27, 31, 32, 43, 50, 51,
57, 63–64, 64
Idas, 55–56
identity, time as factor in formation of, 45–46
imagination, role of, in contemplating artifi-
cial life and technological invention, 1–5,
13, 22–23, 28, 95–96, 103, 112, 134, 146, 150,
153–54, 159, 177, 179, 211–12, 214, 233n22
immortality: of Castor and Pollux, 43–44;
Chinese tales about, 49; consequences of,
45–46, 50–59; contemporary quest for,
58; fatalism as substitute for, 47–48; glory
as substitute for, 47, 50; of the gods, 8, 27,
43; gods’ granting of, 42; human desire for,
44–60, 58; Medea and, 42; Talos and, 8,
10–11, 27, 29. See also rejuvenation
Immortals, as designation of military units,
46–47
India, 48–49, 71, 102–3, 110–11, 203–9, 211
Indra, 204
Io, 135
Iolaus, 43
Iolcos, 33
Iron Knight. See Ta l u s
Iron Maiden, 195
Iron Man (film), 32
James, William, 123
Japan, 209–10
Jason and the Argonauts, 1, 7–11, 13, 16 , 17, 33,
35, 38, 42–43, 63–66, 127, 150
Jason and the Argonauts (film), 8, 11–12, 65
al-Jazari, 146, 201
Jerome, 189
Jesus, 2, 189
kanaboi (armatures), 121–22
Kanellopoulos, Kanellos, 84
Kang, Minsoo, 21–22, 111–12, 153–54, 247n37
Kant, Immanuel, 125, 126
Karloff, Boris, 125
Kerle, Hanfried, 199
Kipchak, 67, 134
kites, 83–84, 182
kleroterion (lottery machine), 195
Koetsier, Teun, 199
Konstam, Nigel, 100
kore (maiden) statues, 166, 168
Kotsanas, Kostas, 191, 202
Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Tech-
nology, 145
Kouretes, 142
Kubrick, Stanley, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 11
labor: of god Hephaestus, 129–30; technol-
ogy for reduction of, 145, 151–53, 225n28,
241nn38–39
Labyrinth, 5, 72, 75
Laelaps, 7, 12, 142
Laestrygonians, 21
Lang, Fritz, Metropolis, 169–70, 170 , 171
Laodamia, 109
Laos, 209
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (film), 210
Leda, 43, 71
Lefkowitz, Mary, 46
Leonardo da Vinci, 83, 226n42
Lesbos, 144
Lestriconi, 21
Leucadia, 181
Lie Yukou, Book of Liezi, 121
Lin, Patrick, 62
lions: made by Daedalus, 91; made by He-
phaestus, 138, 144
lodestone. See magnetism
Lokapannatti, 204–5, 208
lost-wax casting method, 20, 24–26, 86–88,
121–22
love, 45
Lowe, Dunstan, 101
Lucan, 126
Lucian, 95, 108–9, 183; Icaromenippus (“The
Sky Man”), 81; Philopseudes (“Lover of
Lies”), 52, 188–89