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Falling in love with statues : artificial humans from Pygmalion to the present

Title
Falling in love with statues : artificial humans from Pygmalion to the present / George L. Hersey.
Author
Hersey, George L.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Description
188 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.
Subject
  • Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
  • Love > Mythology
  • Mythology, Greek
  • Pygmalion (Greek mythology)
  • Galatea, statue brought to life (Greek mythology)
  • Statues in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-180) and index.
Contents
The island goddesses -- Cyprus, cypress, copper, Cypris -- Cypris the sculptor -- Beautiful bodies -- Ovid and tactility -- Demons and deliverance -- New races of automata -- The primacy of artificial humans.
Call Number
JFF 09-222
ISBN
  • 9780226327792 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226327795 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2008043594
  • 40016925434
OCLC
267044264
Author
Hersey, George L.
Title
Falling in love with statues : artificial humans from Pygmalion to the present / George L. Hersey.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-180) and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40016925434
Research Call Number
JFF 09-222
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