Ancient Robots, War Machines and Fembots with Adrienne Mayor

What makes a robot? Why is there a timeless desire to create artificial intelligence? And what’s up with the prevalence of war machines and ancient fembots?

This episode of Classical Wisdom Speaks is with Adrienne Mayor, a Research scholar at Stanford University, a folklorist and historian of ancient science. Adrienne discusses her most recent book, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology and explains how the Greeks imagined automatons, replicants, and Artificial Intelligence in both ancient myths and machines.

You can purchase Adrienne's book, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, here:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691183510/gods-and-robots

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