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The persistent desire to animate inanimate objects has been a recurring theme in European culture dating back to ancient Greek and Roman times. Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity aims to establish, for the first time, the significance of this aspiration and its practical realization within Greek and Roman societies. While certain aspects of this narrative have been explored previously, this study shifts the focus to place technological animation at the forefront. The sixteen chapters examine the tangible existence of such devices across various media and considers their roles in diverse contexts, delving into the reciprocal relationship between technological and material realities, and its influence on the concept of animation and vice versa. By adopting this perspective, technological animation not only provides a new understanding of the processes behind animation but also lends a fresh perspective to the animated artifact. In contrast to other types of animation, where the technologically animated artifact is often dismissed as a perceptual error induced, for instance, by rhetoric or magic, this study separates technological animation from notions of rhetorical or magical skills, theurgy, or divine intervention. Specifically, it concentrates on a subset of artificial animation solely produced through technical procedures, exploring how various motive forces actively contributed to giving objects agency and impacting their viewers, illuminating how the material conditions of the artifacts themselves played a role in the process of technological animation--whether through the distinctive materiality of bronze or the design of a statuette's hinge.
Contents
Maria Gerolemou: Introducing the Technology of Animation in Classical Antiquity
I. Theories
1: The Axe's Heart Work: On Craft Similes, Techna, and Animation in the iliad
2: Richard Seaford†: The Ideology of Automata: From Mesopotamia to Aristotle
3: Jean De Groot: An Ancient Grammar of Animation and Technē
4: Gabriele Galluzzo: Automatic Puppets, Toy Carts, and Robots: Aristotle's Metaphysics of Artefacts and the Question of Automata
5: Courtney Roby: Strange Loops: Experiment and Program in Hero of Alexandria's Automata
II. Contexts
6: Maya Muratov: From 'Dolls' to Puppets: Mechanisms and Purpose of Articulated Terracotta Figurines in Antiquity
7: Colin Webster: Manufacturing Motion in Aristotle's De Motu Animalium
8: Maria Gerolemou: Technolarynges in Classical Antiquity
9: Antje Wessels: Speaking Doors: Voice and Materiality in Ancient Literature
10: Francesco Grillo and Costas Panayotakis: Automata and other Technological Devices in Trimalchio's Dinner Party
11: Carol C. Mattusch: Dead or Alive? Giving Life to Bronze
III. Audiences
12: Deborah Steiner: Affecting Artefacts: Interacting with Objects in Archaic and Early Classical Greece
13: Seungjung Kim: Visualising Time: The Lysippan Kairos in the Scientific Landscape of the Fourth Century BCE
14: Isabel A. Ruffell: Trains and Boats and Planes: Animating the Ship in Greek Culture
15: Tatiana Bur: The Importance of the Construct: Technological Animation in Ancient Religious Contexts
16: Sylvia Berryman: Devising Nature
