ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|88 pages
Cognitive linguistics
part II|82 pages
Cognitive literary theory
chapter 9|13 pages
“I’ll imitate Helen”!
part III|90 pages
Social cognition
chapter 12|14 pages
Plato’s dialogically extended cognition
part IV|49 pages
Performance and cognition
chapter 18|13 pages
What do we actually see on stage?
part V|27 pages
Artificial intelligence
chapter 20|14 pages
The extended mind of Hephaestus
part VI|46 pages
Cognitive archaeology