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  • JEWISH LITERATURE OF THE HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PERIOD

  • Jonathan Davies
  • Journal:
    The Classical Review / Volume 75 / Issue 2 / October 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 July 2025, pp. 314-323
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    October 2025
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  • References

  • Tatiana Bur, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book:
    Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
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    04 September 2025
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    24 July 2025, pp 270-303
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  • Conclusion

  • from Part III - Faking the Gods
  • Tatiana Bur, Australian National University, Canberra
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    Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
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    04 September 2025
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    24 July 2025, pp 258-269
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  • Summary

    This book began with a set of propositions about how the ancient Greek religious system worked, particularly in relation to divine manifestation. I set out to explore how technology featured and functioned with(in) those propositions which mediated between human and supernatural realms. Including the mechanical in the discourse on divine epiphany and religious experience is not intuitive. Karel Čapek’s satiric vision of a machine that creates practically free energy but spurts out a numinous by-product known as the Absolute is both very relevant and utterly alien to the ancient context. It is alien in that Čapek’s novel is focalised through (relatively) modern preconceptions of technology and religion as antithetical. The protagonist’s invention is strictly a machine of science fiction. That a sense of the numinous might be created by mechanical technology is entertained in the story as imaginatively (and metaphorically) compelling but remains impossible in practical terms.

  • A Note to the Reader

  • Tatiana Bur, Australian National University, Canberra
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    Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
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    04 September 2025
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    24 July 2025, pp xii-xii
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  • Chapter 5 - Dedicated Inventions

  • from Part II - Technologies and Ritual Experience
  • Tatiana Bur, Australian National University, Canberra
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    Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
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    04 September 2025
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    24 July 2025, pp 125-184
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    Chapter 5 explores how technical ingenuity featured in the act of religious dedication in ancient Greek religion. Two epigrams (describing the Bes rhyton and the Lykon thēsauros) are taken alongside descriptions of pneumatic inventions in Philo of Byzantium and Hero of Alexandria’s technical manuals. Though not typically read together, Hellenistic epigram, and Philo and Hero’s texts all describe pneumatically enhanced dedications, and demonstrate, within the confines of their genres, how religious awe and technological capabilities were co-constructed and mutually reinforcing. The chapter then turns to the material record, examining traces of technically enhanced dedications in practice. Two examples are explored: wheeled tripods and articulated figurines. Both categories of votive objects show different ways in which the mechanical, human, and divine were configured. Both also stretch further back chronologically than the discussion of preceding chapters, allowing for discussion of texts including Iliad 18 on Hephaistos’ tripods, and Prometheus Bound, to think about the (mythic) prehistory of the phenomenon at hand.

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