Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology (Hardcover)

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Mayor assembles a fascinating picture of artificial life being born in mythology and emerging into the real world during ancient times. This is a scholarly work, not a work of popular science. For me, that was perfect, as I used it for background research for my latest sci-fi novel, Turing's Nigh...

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Adrienne Mayor traces the appearance of biotechne or automata in the stories, poetry, plays, pottery and statues of the Ancient World, particularly in Ancient Greece, but also with reference to Rome, India and China. From the bronze automaton Talos, protecting Crete by running its borders 3 times...

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This is an intriguing synthesis of the legends of "biotechne" of ancient and classical and Hellenistic Greece, as despite not having the technology to actualize their most expansive concepts this did not prevent the Greeks from imagining what artificial life might look like and what the philosoph...

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Mayor assembles a fascinating picture of artificial life being born in mythology and emerging into the real world during ancient times. This is a scholarly work, not a work of popular science. For me, that was perfect, as I used it for background research for my latest sci-fi novel, Turing's Nigh...

from Opinionated

Adrienne Mayor traces the appearance of biotechne or automata in the stories, poetry, plays, pottery and statues of the Ancient World, particularly in Ancient Greece, but also with reference to Rome, India and China. From the bronze automaton Talos, protecting Crete by running its borders 3 times...