Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Systems of Explanation; 3. Theorizing the World; 4. Hero in Context; 5. Hero in the Age of Print; Bibliography.

Promotional Information

The first book on Hero, a key figure in the history of technology in antiquity and the early modern period.

About the Author

COURTNEY ROBY is Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University. She is also the author of Technical Ekphrasis: The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome (Cambridge, 2016). She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography from the University of Virginia's Rare Book School.