Classical literature and posthumanism / edited by Giulia Maria Chesi and Francesca Spiegel.

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Theoretical introduction: The subject of the human / Giulia Maria Chesi and Francesca Spiegel -- Introductions to post/human theories. The question of the animal and the Aristotelian human horse / Oxana Timofeeva -- Foucault, the monstrous and monstrosity / Luciano Nuzzo -- How to become a cyborg / Kirstin Mertlitsch -- Anders, Simondon and the becoming of the posthuman / Yuk Hui -- De/humanization. Odysseus, the boar and the anthropogenic machine / Marianne Hopman -- What is it like to be a donkey (with a human mind)? Pseudo-Lucian's Onos / Tua Korhonen -- Quam soli vidistis equi : focalization and animal subjectivity in Valerius Flaccus / Anne Tuttle Mackay -- Animality, illness and dehumanisation: the phenomenology of illness in Sophocles' Philoctetes / Chiara Thumiger -- The imperial animal : Virgil's Georgics and the anthropo-/theriomorphic enterprise / Tom Geue -- Animals, governance and warfare in the Iliad and Aeschylus' Persians / Manuela Giordano -- The sovereign and the beast : images of ancient tyranny / Roland Baumgarten -- The monstrous. Typhoeus or cosmic regression (Theogony 821-880) / Jenny Strauss Clay -- Demonic disease in tragedy : illness, animality, and dehumanisation / Giovanni Ceschi -- The Sphinx and another thinking of life / Kathrine Fleming -- When Rome's elephants weep : humane monsters from Pompey's theater to Virgil's Trojan horse / Aaron Kachuck -- The monstrosity of Cato in Lucan's Civil war / James McNamara -- Why can't I have wings? Aristophanes' birds / Maria Gerolemou -- Bodies and entanglements. The seer's two bodies : some early Greek histories of technology / Martin Devecka -- Fluid cypress and hybrid bodies as a cognitively disturbing metaphor in Euripides' Cretans / Johan Tralau -- Body politics in the Antiquitates romanae of Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Yuddi Gershon -- The myth of Io, and female cyborgic identity / Antonietta Provenza -- Cosmic, animal and human becomings : a case study in ancient philosophy / Laura Rosella Schluderer -- Post-humanism in Seneca's happy life : "animalism", personification, and private property in Roman Stoicism (Epistulae morales 113 and De vita beata 5-8) / Alex Dressler -- Hagiography without humans : Simeon the Stylite / Virginia Burrus -- Objects, machines and robotic devices. Assemblages and objects in Greek tragedy / Nancy Worman -- Hybris and hybridity in Aeschylus' Persians: a post-humanist perspective on Xerxes' expedition / Anne-Sophie Noel -- Malfunctions of embodiment : man/weapon agency and the Greek ideology of masculinity / Francesca Spiegel -- Aeneid 12 : a cyborg border war / Elena Giusti -- The presence of presents: speaking objects in Martial's Xenia and Apophoreta / Katherine Wasdin -- Automatopoetae machinae : laws of nature and human invention (Vitruvius ix. 8.4-7) / Mireille Courrent -- Pandora and robotic technology today / Giulia Maria Chesi & Giacomo Sclavi -- Art, life and the creation of automata : on Pindar, Olympian 7.50-53 / Agis Marinis -- Staying alive : Plato, Horace and the written text / Alexander Kirichenko -- Beyond the beautiful evil? the ancient/future history of sex robots / Genevieve Liveley -- Conclusions / Simon Goldhill.