Classical Literature and Posthumanism

Giulia Maria Chesi is Assistant Professor of Greek at the Humboldt University, Berlin.Francesca Spiegel is Adjunct Lecturer at the Center for Gender Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin.

• Theoretical IntroductionGiulia Maria Chesi and Francesca Spiegel: The Subject of the HumanIntroductions to Post/human theories1. Oxana Timofeeva: The question of the animal and the Aristotelian human horse2. Luciano Nuzzo: Foucault, the monstrous and monstrosity 3. Kirstin Mertlitsch: How to become a cyborg 4. Yuk Hui: Anders, Simondon and the becoming of the Posthuman Part I De/humanization and animals 1. Marianne Hopman: Odysseus, the boar and the anthropogenic machine2. Tua Korhonen: What is it like to be a donkey (with a human mind)? Pseudo-Lucian’s Onos3. Anne Tuttle Mackay: Quam soli vidistis equi: focalization and animal subjectivity in Valerius Flaccus4. Chiara Thumiger: Animality, illness and dehumanisation: the phenomenology of illness in Sophocles’ Philoctetes 5. Tom Geue: The imperial animal: Virgil’s Georgics and the anthropo-/theriomorphic enterprise 6. Manuela Giordano: Animals, governance and warfare in the Iliad and Aeschylus’ Persians 7. Roland Baumgarten: The Sovereign and the beast: images of ancient tyranny Part II The monstrous 8. Jenny Strauss Clay: Typhoeus or cosmic regression (Theogony 821-880)9. Giovanni Ceschi: Demonic disease in tragedy: illness, animality, and dehumanisation 10. Kathrine Fleming: The Sphinx and another thinking of life11. Aaron Kachuck: When Rome’s elephants weep. Humane monsters from Pompey’s theater to Virgil’s Trojan Horse 12. James McNamara: The monstrosity of Cato in Lucan’s Civil war13. Maria Gerolemou: Why can’t I have wings? Aristophanes’ BirdsPart III Bodies and entanglements 14. Martin Devecka: The Seer’s two bodies: some early Greek histories of technology 15. Johan Tralau: Fluid cypress and hybrid bodies as a cognitively disturbing metaphor in Euripides’ Cretans16. Yuddi Gershon: Body politics in the Antiquitates Romanae of Dionysius of Halicarnassus 17. Antonietta Provenza: The myth of Io, and female cyborgic identity 18. Laura Rosella Schluderer: Cosmic, animal and human becomings: a case study in ancient philosophy 19. Alex Dressler: Post-humanism in Seneca’s Happy Life: “animalism”, personification, and private property in Roman Stoicism (Epistulae morales 113 and De vita beata 5-8)20. Virginia Burrus: Hagiography without humans: Simeon the Stylite Part IV Objects, machines and robotic devices 21. Nancy Worman: Assemblages and objects in Greek tragedy 22. Anne-Sophie Noel: Hybris and hybridity in Aeschylus’ Persians: a post-humanist perspective on Xerxes’ expedition23. Francesca Spiegel: Malfunctions of embodiment: Man/weapon agency and the Greek ideology of masculinity 24. Elena Giusti: Aeneid 12: a cyborg border war25. Katherine Wasdin: The presence of presents: Speaking objects in Martial’s Xenia and Apophoreta 26. Mireille Courrent: Automatopoetae machinae: laws of nature and human invention (Vitruvius IX. 8.4-7) 27. Giulia Maria Chesi & Giacomo Sclavi: Pandora and robotic technology today28. Agis Marinis: Art, life and the creation of automata. On Pindar, Olympian 7.50-53 29. Alexander Kirichenko: Staying alive: Plato, Horace and the written text30. Genevieve Liveley: Beyond the beautiful evil? The ancient/future history of sex robots Conclusions Simon Goldhill BibliographyIndex

Classical Literature and Posthumanism … constitutes both a treasury of provocations and ultimately something more than the sum of its parts.