The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory

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The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the application of cognitive theory to the study of the classical world, across several interrelated areas including linguistics, literary theory, social practices, performance, artificial intelligence and archaeology. With contributions from a diverse group of international scholars working in this exciting new area, the volume explores the processes of the mind drawing from research in psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology, and interrogates the implications of these new approaches for the study of the ancient world. Topics covered in this wide-ranging collection include: cognitive linguistics applied to Homeric and early Greek texts, Roman cultural semantics, linguistic embodiment in Latin literature, group identities in Greek lyric, cognitive dissonance in historiography, kinesthetic empathy in Sappho, artificial intelligence in Hesiod and Greek drama, the enactivism of Roman statues and memory and art in the Roman Empire. This ground-breaking work is the first to organize the field, allowing both scholars and students access to the methodologies, bibliographies and techniques of the cognitive sciences and how they have been applied to classics. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Contributors Foreword Notes Acknowledgments Introduction Cognitive linguistics Cognitive literary theory Social cognition Performance and cognition Artificial intelligence Cognitive archaeology Note References PART I: Cognitive linguistics Chapter 1: Cognitive-functional grammar and the complexity of early Greek epic diction Avant propos Cognitive-functional linguistics Homeric scholarship and usage-based analysis Grammaticalized usage in Homer Grammar, traditional patterns and anomaly The complexity of epic diction Scientific method, cognitive linguistics and complexity Notes References Chapter 2: The cognitive linguistics of Homeric surprise Notes References Chapter 3: Construal and immersion: a cognitive linguistic approach to Homeric immersivity 1. Introduction: Homer and immersion 2. Construal 3. Embodiment 4. Calypso’s cave Conclusion Notes References Chapter 4: Roman cultural semantics Notes References Chapter 5: Psycholinguistics and the classical languages: reconstructing native comprehension Introduction Reading the critics’ mind: ancient rhetoric clarity and language comprehension The other way around: classics and the experimental research agenda Conclusion Notes References PART II: Cognitive literary theory Chapter 6: The cognition of deception: falsehoods in Homer’s Odyssey and their audiences Literary theory and cognitive theory Telling false tales: a cognitive framework Odysseus tells a false tale to Athena Odysseus’ second false tale to Eumaeus Odysseus tells a ‘Cretan lie’ to his wife Conclusions Notes References Chapter 7: The forbidden fruit of compression in Homer Compression: examples from nonverbal art Compression of time, place, role, identity, and representation in the Iliad: the case of Helen’s identification of heroes, and Priam’s journey About compression in the Odyssey, and micro-level compression Conclusion: what it means to acknowledge compression in literary criticism Acknowledgement Notes References Chapter 8: Human cognition and narrative closure: the Odyssey’s open-end Storytelling, human cognition, and closure Ending the poem and the economy of pleasure Signaling closure The sign of the shroud The end of a poem Notes References Chapter 9: “I’ll imitate Helen”! Troubling text-worlds and schemas in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae Worlds in the mind: Text World Theory Waiting for Euripides The imitation of the new Helen and some ambiguities The parody Concluding remarks Notes References Chapter 10: The body-as-metaphor in Latin literature What is an enactive analogy? The embodiment hypothesis Intercorporeality Embodied semantics A case study A comparative model Conclusion Notes References PART III: Social cognition Chapter 11: Group identity and archaic lyric: we-group and out-group in Alcaeus 129 Social identity Alcaeus 129 and the construction of a we-group Conclusions Notes References Chapter 12: Plato’s dialogically extended cognition: cognitive transformation as elenctic catharsis Introduction 1. Socially extended cognition and dynamic cognitive systems 2. Socratic dialogue as a distributed cognitive system 3. Elenctic catharsis, extended 4. Socially extended catharsis 5. Conclusion Notes References Chapter 13: Cognitive dissonance, defeat, and the divinization of Demetrius Poliorcetes in early Hellenistic Athens Notes References Chapter 14: Irony in theory and practice: the test case of Cicero’s Philippics Permutatio ex contrario Bella εἰρωνεία: a second type of irony Urbana dissimulatio: a third type of irony Notes References Chapter 15: Roman ritual orthopraxy and overimitation Introduction Roman imitation Imitation and overimitation Overimitation and Roman orthopraxy Notes References Chapter 16: Theory of mind from Athens to Augustine: divine omniscience and the fear of god Theories of mind Toward divine omniscience and punishment The fear of God: private thoughts and divine punishment Conclusion Notes References PART IV: Performance and cognition Chapter 17: Sappho’s kinesthetic turn: agency and embodiment in archaic Greek poetry Agency, embodiment, dance, and cognition Managing maidens: Alcman 1 and 3 PMG Alcman, Sappho, and kinesthetic empathy Anactoria’s vanishing act: Sappho fr. 16 Conclusion Notes References Chapter 18: What do we actually see on stage? A cognitive approach to the interactions between visual and aural effects in the performance of Greek tragedy Multisensory integration in neuroscience and brain theory Multisensory objects in the Oresteia Notes References Chapter 19: Mirth and creative cognition in the spectating of Aristophanic comedy Aristophanic performance as a positive environment and mirthful performance Positive emotion and cognitive broadening: the key theories Aristophanes’ ‘multiplicity’ of meaning and creative cognition Conclusion Notes References PART V: Artificial intelligence Chapter 20: The extended mind of Hephaestus: automata and artificial intelligence in early Greek hexameter The ergonomics of automation Homo loquens: the problem of language in artificial intelligence Conclusions Notes References Chapter 21: Staging artificial intelligence: the case of Greek drama Introduction Reproducing bodily automatisms Sculpting the mind Epilogue Notes References PART VI: Cognitive archaeology Chapter 22: Thinking with statues: the Roman public portrait and the cognition of commemoration Introduction Some caveats Thinking with public portraits Memory and imagery in Roman culture Emotion and memory cognition Conclusion Notes References Chapter 23: Animal sacrifice in Roman Asia minor and its depictions: a cognitive approach References Chapter 24: Art, architecture, and false memory in the Roman Empire: a cognitive perspective Cognitive theories of memory and visual imagery Sports memorabilia from Roman Britain Travel souvenirs from Ancient Campania The Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome Image, narrative, and memory Conclusions Notes References Index