Artificial intelligence in Greek and Roman epic

• Titel: Artificial intelligence in Greek and Roman epic
• Mitwirkende: Domouzi, Andriana [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Bär, Silvio [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Andriana Domouzi and Silvio Bär
• Verlagsort: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: x, 306 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Literaturangaben
• ISBN: 978-1-350-26069-6
• ISBN: 978-1-350-26073-3
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Artificial intelligence in Greek and Roman epic. - London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 |(DLC)2023052711
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic. - 1st ed. - London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
• RVK-Notation: FB 5875
• Sach-SW: Altgriechisch
• Sach-SW: Ancient (Classical) Greek
• Sach-SW: Antike griechische und römische Literatur
• Sach-SW: Artificial intelligence
• Sach-SW: COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence
• Sach-SW: Classical texts
• Sach-SW: Künstliche Intelligenz
• Sach-SW: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
• Sach-SW: Latein
• Sach-SW: Latin
• Sach-SW: Literary criticism
• Sach-SW: Essays
• Geograph. SW: Altes Griechenland
• Geograph. SW: Altes Rom
• Geograph. SW: Ancient Greece
• Geograph. SW: Ancient Rome
• Geograph. SW: Ancient World
• Zeit-SW: BCE to c 500 CE
• Zeit-SW: Deutschland, Mittel- und Osteuropa: Antike und Altertum (ca. 800 v. Chr. bis ca. 500 n. Chr.)
• K10plus-PPN: 187756219X

Abstract

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 Pygmalions ivory woman in Ovids 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)