Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic - Couverture souple

 
9781350260733: Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic
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ISBN 10 : 1350260738 ISBN 13 : 9781350260733
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Synopsis

This is the first scholarly exploration of concepts and representations of Artificial Intelligence in ancient Greek and Roman epic, including their reception in later literature and culture. Contributors look at how Hesiod, Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Moschus, Ovid and Valerius Flaccus crafted the first literary concepts concerned with automata and the quest for artificial life, as well as technological intervention improving human life. Parts one and two consider, respectively, archaic Greek, and Hellenistic and Roman, epics. Contributors explore the representations of Pandora in Hesiod, and Homeric automata such as Hephaestus’ wheeled tripods, the Phaeacian king Alcinous’ golden and silver guard dogs, and even the Trojan Horse. Later examples cover Artificial Intelligence and automation (including Talos) in the Argonautica of Apollonius and Valerius Flaccus, and Pygmalion’s ivory woman in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Part three underlines how these concepts benefit from analysis of the ekphrasis device, within which they often feature. These chapters investigate the cyborg potential of the epic hero and the literary implications of ancient technology. Moving into contemporary examples, the final chapters consider the reception of ancient literary Artificial Intelligence in contemporary film and literature, such as the Czech science-fiction epic Starvoyage, or Small Cosmic Odyssey by Jan Kr?esadlo (1995) and the British science-fiction novel The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett (2004).

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À propos des auteurs

Andriana Domouzi is Postdoctoral Researcher in Classics and Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Silvio Bär is Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo, Norway.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Academic
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1350260738
ISBN 13 
9781350260733
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
318
Éditeur
Domouzi Andriana
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
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