King Pygmalion and Ideal women.

I dont want to be seen as a myth in the future.
We cannot afford to fail, take up the mantle that king pygmalion left for us.
Rome will fall, but we can rise out of it.

⁣In the tale, which is often considered a Greek myth and is set in Cyprus but was written by the Roman poet Ovid in the 1st century AD, a sculptor named Pygmalion falls in love with his creation, a woman made of ivory. The stone statue comes to life and becomes Pygmalion’s lover.
“It has that desire to create an artificial person who’s some kind of perfection, an idealized person,” explains Devlin. “It’s making something to your own specification. And there’s an element where you have control over it.”
Devlin is working on a book, The Future History of Robots, along with Genevieve Liveley, classics and ancient history lecturer at Bristol University. Liveley says there’s both a dark and a utopian reading of Pygmalion—and that both apply to the notion of sex robots.
⁣“Pygmalion doesn’t like the outside world, he doesn’t like women, he sees them as prostitutes. They disgust him because they wear make-up and behave inappropriately,” she says. “For Pygmalion in Ovid’s story, having a sexbot of his own is great because he doesn’t have to interact with real women, he doesn’t have to engage with the world. He’s no longer living a life of celibacy.



⁣Pygmalion is far from the only tale that draws on sex robot themes. The story was inspired by the Greek myth of Pandora, in which a woman is molded from the earth by the gods. “She’s inherently artificial. She’s a technological creation,” says Liveley. “She’s programmed by the gods to behave in certain ways that are all about being seductive and erotic.” The earliest surviving writing on Pandora dates from 8th century BCE, though Liveley says it likely has much older roots. The tale is also the Greek version of the tale of Adam and Eve, a connection that highlights how the first woman of the Abrahamic religions was molded to serve the needs of the man.