Mirrors on Ourselves: Attempts to Build Artificial People

Elaine Rich

Automata and Artificial People in Legend, Myth, Literature and Film

· Early Legends and Myths

· Greek and Roman legends

· Pygmalion (see below)

· Hindu legends

· Ganesha, the son created by Shiva “from the dirt of her body”

· Durga, the warrior goddess of ten arms

· Chinese legends

· Taoist parable from Lieh Tzu

· Jewish legends

· Rabbi Loew and the Golem

· Literature

· Pygmalion

· The Wikipedia page

· A comprehensive site that describes the Pygmalion myth in stories, art, and movies

· Ovid

· The Metamorphses

· The Pygmalion story

· Pinocchio

· Anderson, Hans Christian, The Nightingale

· Basile, Giambattista, Pintosmalto

· Bierce, Ambrose, Moxon’s Master

· Butler, Samuel, Erewhon

· Hawthorne, Nathanial, Downe’s Wooden Image

· Hoffman, E. T. A., The Sandman

· Film

· Metropolis (1927)

· Frankenstein (1931)

· The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

· Forbidden Planet (1956)

· Short Circuit (1986)

· I Robot (2004)