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Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homer's automata down to the figural assimilation between body parts and products of human craft in Greek and Roman medicine.

Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/10/2025
      ISBN13: 9781009088060, 978-1009088060
      ISBN10: 1009088068
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      Book Synopsis
      Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homer's automata down to the figural assimilation between body parts and products of human craft in Greek and Roman medicine.

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