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Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nCONTENTS\nCONTRIBUTORS\nTHEORETICAL INTRODUCTION: THE SUBJECT OF THE HUMAN\n Section 1: Humanism and Post/humanism\n Section 2: The heterogeneous self\n Section 3: Becoming- animal\n Section 4: Becoming- machine\n Section 5: Disentangling technophobia\n Section 6: Informatics of domination\n Section 7: Post/humanism and anarchy\nINTRODUCTIONS TO POST/HUMAN THEORIES\nTHE QUESTION OF THE ANIMAL AND THE ARISTOTELIAN HUMAN HORSE\nFOUCAULT, THE MONSTROUS AND MONSTROSITY\nHOW TO BECOME A CYBORG1\n Cyborg: A short biography\n Polymorphic information systems\n Networks and nodes\n Embodied knowledge: Material-semiotic actors\nANDERS, SIMONDON AND THE BECOMING OF THE POSTHUMAN\n Posthuman as pharmakon\n Promethean shame and the obsolescence of man\n Double alienation and the becoming of the technical individual\n Against naïve posthuman ontologies\nPART I DE/HUMANIZATION AND ANIMALS\n CHAPTER 1 ODYSSEUS, THE BOAR AND THE ANTHROPOGENIC MACHINE1\n I. Audience expectations and the analogical worldview\n II. The anthropogenic machine at work\n III. Cross-species entanglements\n CHAPTER 2 WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A DONKEY (WITH A HUMAN MIND)? PSEUDO-LUCIAN’S ONOS\n Becoming a donkey\n Lucius’ relationship with human and non-human animals\n Suffering animals\n A donkey’s life with a human mind\n Concluding words\n CHAPTER 3 QUAM SOLI VIDISTIS EQUI: FOCALIZATION AND ANIMAL SUBJECTIVITY IN VALERIUS FLACCUS\n Introduction\n The Promethean vulture\n The cavalry of Ariasmenus\n Conclusion\n CHAPTER 4 ANIMALITY, ILLNESS AND DEHUMANIZATION: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF ILLNESS IN SOPHOCLES’ PHILOCTETES1\n Illness as hyper-awareness of one’s corporeal reality\n Identity loss: Becoming animal\n Identity loss: From civilized man to ‘primitive’\n Identity loss: The house-keeper, the baby and the slave\n Ultimate identity loss: Bodily annihilation\n Conclusion\n CHAPTER 5 THE IMPERIAL ANIMAL: VIRGIL’S GEORGICS AND THE ANTHROPO-/THERIOMORPHIC ENTERPRISE1\n Domestication station\n Domestication nation\n Conquest and quarantine\n CHAPTER 6 ANIMALS, GOVERNANCE AND WARFARE IN THE ILIAD AND AESCHYLUS’ PERSIANS\n A sheepish subject\n The Shepherd of the people: The leader and his flock\n Martial herding\n Prey-predators\n Gender: The bull and the cattle\n Aeschylus’ Persians : The shattered flock\n Conclusion\n CHAPTER 7 THE SOVEREIGN AND THE BEAST: IMAGES OF ANCIENT TYRANNY\nPART II THE MONSTROUS\n CHAPTER 8 TYPHOEUS OR COSMIC REGRESSION (THEOGONY 821–880)\n CHAPTER 9 DEMONIC DISEASE IN GREEK TRAGEDY: ILLNESS, ANIMALITY AND DEHUMANIZATION\n Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound\n Sophocles, Trachiniae and Philoctetes\n Euripides, Hippolytus and Orestes\n Conclusions: The νόσοςas ἀμορφία\n CHAPTER 10 THE SPHINX AND ANOTHER THINKING OF LIFE\n CHAPTER 11 WHEN ROME’S ELEPHANTS WEEP: HUMANE MONSTERS FROM POMPEY’S THEATRE TO VIRGIL’S TROJAN HORSE\n Elephants’ human community\n Elephants as the symbol of imperial power\n Elephants, the Trojan Horse, and the origins of Latin literature\n CHAPTER 12 THE MONSTROSITY OF CATO IN LUCAN’S CIVIL WAR 9\n Introduction\n Fracturing of the subject\n Affinities and alienation\n Virtus after the vir\n Conclusions\n CHAPTER 13 WHY CAN’T I HAVE WINGS? ARISTOPHANES’ BIRDS\n Introduction\n Avian technology\n Wings as demerit goods\n Ornithomania\nPART III BODIES AND ENTANGLEMENTS\n CHAPTER 14 THE SEER’S TWO BODIES: SOME EARLY GREEK HISTORIES OF TECHNOLOGY\n CHAPTER 15 FLUID CYPRESS AND HYBRID BODIES AS A COGNITIVELY DISTURBING METAPHOR IN EURIPIDES’ CRETANS\n The temple and the cypress\n Fluid cypress\n No ordinary metaphor\n The body and the temple\n CHAPTER 16 BODY POLITICS IN THE ANTIQUITATES ROMANAE OF DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS\n Introduction\n The distinctiveness of the Antiquitates Romanae\n The Fable of the Belly and the Body’s Members\n Menenius Agrippa before the senate\n Menenius Agrippa before the seceders\n CHAPTER 17 THE MYTH OF IO AND FEMALE CYBORGIC IDENTITY\n The girl-heifer in Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and Suppliant Maidens\n Conclusions\n CHAPTER 18 COSMIC, ANIMAL AND HUMAN BECOMINGS: A CASE STUDY IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY\n Harmonic compounds: Philolaus’ becomings\n Philolaus’ cosmic, animal and human becomings\n CHAPTER 19 POSTHUMANISM IN SENECA’S HAPPY LIFE: ‘ANIMALISM’, PERSONIFICATION AND PRIVATE PROPERTY IN ROMAN STOICISM ( EPISTULAE MORALES 113 AND DE VITA BEATA 5–8)\n Introduction: The two cyborgs of Roman Stoicism\n Four arguments from Ep. 113\n Four arguments and three tropes in The Happy Life\n How the virtues became posthuman: The ei-cuius clause of Ep. 113\n Conclusion: The part of play in Roman philosophy\n CHAPTER 20 HAGIOGRAPHY WITHOUT HUMANS: SIMEON THE STYLITE\n Becoming-plant (Theodoret, RH 26.5)\n Becoming- mountain, becoming-insect (Theodoret, RH 26.10)\n Becoming-icon (Theodoret, RH 26.11)\n Becoming-column (Theodoret, RH 26.12)\n Becoming-human (Theodoret, RH 26.1, 23, 28)\n Becoming-worm (Antonius, LS 5–8, 17–18)\n Becoming flesh: Concluding reflections\nPART IV OBJECTS, MACHINES AND ROBOTIC DEVICES\n CHAPTER 21 ASSEMBLAGES AND OBJECTS IN GREEK TRAGEDY\n Ruinous materials in Aeschylus’ Oresteia\n Material assemblages in Euripides’ Andromache\n Bodystuff in Sophocles’ Trachiniae\n CHAPTER 22 HYBRIS AND HYBRIDITY IN AESCHYLUS’ PERSIANS: A POSTHUMANIST PERSPECTIVE ON XERXES’ EXPEDITION\n The bridging of the Hellespont and supra-humanity\n Infra-humanity at Salamis\n Epilogue\n CHAPTER 23 MALFUNCTIONS OF EMBODIMENT: MAN/WEAPON AGENCY AND THE GREEK IDEOLOGY OF MASCULINITY\n CHAPTER 24 AENEID 12: A CYBORG BORDER WAR\n Arma uirumque\n Wounding\n Virgil’s ideological chimera\n CHAPTER 25 THE PRESENCE OF PRESENTS: SPEAKING OBJECTS IN MARTIAL’S XENIA AND APOPHORETA\n Earlier voices\n Who gets to speak and why\n Entangled voices\n Conclusion\n CHAPTER 26 AUTOMATOPOETAE MACHINAE: LAWS OF NATURE AND HUMAN INVENTION (VITRUVIUS 9.8.4–7)\n CHAPTER 27 PANDORA AND ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY TODAY\n Pandora as a fusion of the organic and the technical\n Pandora as a hybrid of machine and organism\n Pandora and robotic technology today\n Conclusions\n CHAPTER 28 ART, LIFE AND THE CREATION OF AUTOMATA: ON PINDAR, OLYMPIAN 7.50–53\n ‘Like living and moving beings’\n Sane mentality and the straight road\n CHAPTER 29 STAYING ALIVE: PLATO, HORACE AND THE WRITTEN TEXT\n Introduction\n Plato and the immortality of Socrates\n Horace and the intertextual continuum\n Conclusion\n CHAPTER 30 BEYOND THE BEAUTIFUL EVIL? THE ANCIENT/FUTURE HISTORY OF SEX ROBOTS\nCONCLUSIONS\n I\n II\n III\nNOTES\nBIBLIOGRAPHY\nINDEX