Gods and robots: myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology

Introduction: made, not born.

The robot and the witch: Talos and Medea

Medea's cauldron of rejuvenation

The quest for immortality and eternal youth

Beyond nature: enhanced powers borrowed from gods and animals

Daedalus and the living statues

Pygmalion's living doll and Prometheus's first humans

Hephaestus: divine devices and automata

Pandora: beautiful, artificial, evil

Between myth and history: real automata and lifelike artifices in the ancient world.

Epilogue: Awe, dread, hope: deep learning and ancient stories.