The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory

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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