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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2025

Tatiana Bur
Tatiana Bur
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Australian National University, Canberra

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Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion , pp. vi - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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  1. 5.1Rotating wheels as described in the Peripatetic Mechanica (a) single (b) multiple.

  2. 5.2Artistic reconstruction of a self-rotating wheel for purification used in temples after Philo of Byzantium, Pneumatica 63. (Image Y. Nakas. First published in ‘The Importance of the Construct: Technological Animation in Ancient Religious Contexts’ in Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity. Edited by Tatiana Bur, Maria Gerolemou, and Isabel A. Ruffell, Oxford University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857552.003.0016).

  3. 5.3Artist reconstruction of wheels placed in temple porticoes after Hero of Alexandria, Pneumatica I.XXXII Schmidt = 31 Woodcroft. (Image Y. Nakas. First published in ‘The Importance of the Construct: Technological Animation in Ancient Religious Contexts’ in Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity. Edited by Tatiana Bur, Maria Gerolemou, and Isabel A. Ruffell, Oxford University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857552.003.0016).

  4. 5.4Artist reconstruction of a wheel for use in temples which sets off the singing of a little bird after Hero of Alexandria, Pneumatica II.XXXII Schmidt = 68 Woodcroft. (Image Y. Nakas. First published in ‘The Importance of the Construct: Technological Animation in Ancient Religious Contexts’ in Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity. Edited by Tatiana Bur, Maria Gerolemou, and Isabel A. Ruffell, Oxford University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857552.003.0016).

  5. 5.5Owl and bird display described in Hero of Alexandria, Pneumatica I.XVI Schmidt = 15 Woodcroft (Image Y. Nakas, copyright T. Bur).

  6. 5.6C8/7 BCE Boeotian bell-type articulated figurine. Louvre CA 263 (funkyfood London – Paul Williams/Alamy Stock Photo).

  7. 5.7Mid-late C10 BCE Attic bell-type articulated figurine. Athens Kerameikos Museum, inv. no. 962. Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

  8. 5.8C8/7 BCE Cypriot terracotta figurine, once articulated, holding an animal. From a tomb. H. 16 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art 74.51.1613. The Cesnola Collection. Purchased by subscription, 1874–6.

  9. 5.9C8/7 BCE Cypriot terracotta figurine, once articulated, of a male flute player. From a tomb. H. 14.9 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art 74.51.1691. The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–6.

  10. 5.10C5 BCE Corinthian terracotta jointed figurine. Metropolitan Museum of Art 44.11.8. Rogers Fund, 1944.

  11. 5.11Examples of socketed-leg and flanged-leg articulated figurines from Acrocorinth. Adapted from Merker 2000, plate 12.

  12. 5.12Late C4/early C3 BCE articulated ivory figurine said to be from Taranto. Metropolitan Museum of Art 11.212.43. Rogers Fund, 1911.

  13. 5.13Sketch of Bosporan terracotta figurine with articulated legs and phalloi. Moscow State Historical Museum Оп.Б 72/3 (Image Y. Nakas, copyright T. Bur).

  14. 5.14Sketch of Bosporan terracotta figurine with articulated legs carrying an effigy. Moscow State Historical Museum Оп.Б 305/115 (Image Y. Nakas, copyright T. Bur).

  15. 7.1C2 CE marble statue of Glykon from Tomis. Museum of National History and Archaeology, Constanza, Romania 2003.

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