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Fantasies of the Gods: Ancient Myths and Foretelling the Future in the Ancient World

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The “first” robot to walk the earth was the bronze giant Talos. Created by the ancient Greek god Hephaestus over 2,500 years ago, he guarded the island of Crete. The sculptor Pygmalion breathed life into the statue of Galatea, and the wonders of Daedalus have inspired people for centuries. Mythical automatons and innovative structures appear in Indian and Chinese, Greek and Roman legends long before the clockwork mechanisms of the Middle Ages and the development of science in the New Age. In this exciting and unusual book, historian Adrienne Mayor explores how the imagination of ancient people created amazing devices on the edge of myth and reality. Using a large body of sources, the author shows how Antiquity anticipated modern discoveries in the field of robotics and predicted the era of artificial intelligence, because from time immemorial science has been driven by imagination.
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