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CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND POSTHUMANISM i Also published by Bloomsbury POSTHUMANISM IN THE AGE OF HUMANISM: MIND, MATTER, AND THE LIFE SCIENCES AFTER KANT Edgar Landgraf, Gabriel Trop and Leif Weatherby THE NEW HUMAN IN LITERATURE: POSTHUMAN VISIONS OF CHANGES IN BODY, MIND AND SOCIETY AFTER 1900 Mads Rosendahl Th omsen THE MATERIALITIES OF GREEK TRAGEDY: OBJECTS AND AFFECT IN AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, AND EURIPIDES Mario Telò and Melissa Mueller ii CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND POSTHUMANISM Edited by G iulia Maria Chesi and Francesca Spiegel iii BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2020 Copyright © Giulia Maria Chesi, Francesca Spiegel and Contributors, 2020 Giulia Maria Chesi and Francesca Spiegel have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identifi ed as Editors of this work. Cover design: Terry Woodley Cover image © Valeria Shukhova, Konstantin Korchuk All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third- party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-Publication Data Names: Chesi, Giulia Maria, editor. | Spiegel, Francesca, editor. Title: Classical literature and posthumanism / edited by Giulia Maria Chesi and Francesca Spiegel. Description: London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifi ers: LCCN 2019014054| ISBN 9781350069503 (hb) | ISBN 9781350069527 (epdf) Subjects: LCSH: Classical literature—History and criticism. | Animals in literature. | Monsters in literature. | Machinery in literature. | Machine theory in literature. | Cyborgs in literature. | Philosophical anthropology in literature. | Object (Philosophy) in literature. Classifi cation: LCC PA3009 .C54 2019 | DDC 880.09—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019014054 ISBN: HB: 978-1-3500-6950-3 ePDF: 978-1-3500-6952-7 eBook: 978-1-3500-6951-0 Typeset by Refi neCatch, Limited, Bungay, Suffolk To fi nd out more about our authors and books visit w ww.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. iv to Pat Easterling for her fi ne mind and her gentle heart and Michael Silk for his love of breaking new grounds and the care for good writing everywhere v vi CONTENTS Notes on Contributors x Th eoretical Introduction: Th e Subject of the Human Giulia Maria Chesi and Francesca Spiegel 1 Introductions to Post/human Th eories 21 Th e Question of the Animal and the Aristotelian Human Horse Oxana Timofeeva 23 Foucault, the Monstrous and Monstrosity Luciano Nuzzo (translated by Giulia Maria Chesi) 31 How to Become a Cyborg Kirstin Mertlitsch (translated by Francesca Spiegel) 41 Anders, Simondon and the Becoming of the Posthuman Yuk Hui 49 Part I De/Humanization and Animals 1 Odysseus, the Boar and the Anthropogenic Machine Marianne Hopman 61 2 What Is It Like to Be a Donkey (With a Human Mind)? Pseudo-Lucian’s Onos Tua Korhonen 73 3 Quam Soli Vidistis Equi : Focalization and Animal Subjectivity in Valerius Flaccus Anne Tuttle Mackay 85 4 Animality, Illness and Dehumanization: Th e Phenomenology of Illness in Sophocles’ Philoctetes Chiara Th umiger 95 5 Th e Imperial Animal: Virgil’s Georgics and the Anthropo-/Th eriomorphic Enterprise Tom Geue 103 6 Animals, Governance and Warfare in the Iliad and Aeschylus’ Persians Manuela Giordano 111 7 Th e Sovereign and the Beast: Images of Ancient Tyranny Roland Baumgarten 123 Part II Th e Monstrous 8 Typhoeus or Cosmic Regression ( Th eogony 821–880) Jenny Strauss Clay 133 9 Demonic Disease in Greek Tragedy: Illness, Animality and Dehumanization Giovanni Ceschi 141 10 Th e Sphinx and Another Th inking of Life Katherine Fleming 149 vii Contents 11 When Rome’s Elephants Weep: Humane Monsters from Pompey’s Th eatre to Virgil’s Trojan Horse Aaron Kachuck 157 12 Th e Monstrosity of Cato in Lucan’s Civil War 9 James McNamara 167 13 Why Can’t I Have Wings? Aristophanes’ B irds Maria Gerolemou 175 Part III Bodies and Entanglements 14 Th e Seer’s Two Bodies: Some Early Greek Histories of Technology Martin Devecka 185 15 Fluid Cypress and Hybrid Bodies as a Cognitively Disturbing Metaphor in Euripides’ C retans Johan Tralau 193 16 Body Politics in the Antiquitates Romanae of Dionysius of Halicarnassus Y. N. Gershon 203 17 Th e Myth of Io and Female Cyborgic Identity Antonietta Provenza 211 18 Cosmic, Animal and Human Becomings: A Case Study in Ancient Philosophy Laura Rosella Schluderer 217 19 Posthumanism in Seneca’s H appy Life : ‘Animalism’, Personifi cation and Private Property in Roman Stoicism ( Epistulae Morales 113 and De Vita Beata 5–8) Alex Dressler 227 20 Hagiography without Humans: Simeon the Stylite Virginia Burrus 237 Part IV Objects, Machines and Robotic Devices 21 Assemblages and Objects in Greek Tragedy Nancy Worman 247 22 Hybris and Hybridity in Aeschylus’ Persians : A Posthumanist Perspective on Xerxes’ Expedition Anne-Sophie Noel 259 23 Malfunctions of Embodiment: Man/Weapon Agency and the Greek Ideology of Masculinity Francesca Spiegel 267 24 Aeneid 12: A Cyborg Border War Elena Giusti 275 25 Th e Presence of Presents: Speaking Objects in Martial’s Xenia and Apophoreta Katherine Wasdin 285 26 Automatopoetae Machinae : Laws of Nature and Human Invention (Vitruvius 9.8.4–7) Mireille Courr é nt 293 27 Pandora and Robotic Technology Today Giulia Maria Chesi and Giacomo Sclavi 301 28 Art, Life and the Creation of Automata: On Pindar, Olympian 7.50–53 Agis Marinis 309 viii Contents 29 Staying Alive: Plato, Horace and the Written Text Alexander Kirichenko 315 30 Beyond the Beautiful Evil? Th e Ancient/Future History of Sex Robots Genevieve Liveley 323 Conclusions Simon Goldhill 331 Notes 343 Bibliography 409 Index 447 ix

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