by Peter Meineck (Editor), William Michael Short (Editor), Jennifer Devereaux (Editor)
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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 430
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 19 Dec 2018
ISBN 10: 1138913529
ISBN 13: 9781138913523
This is the first book to demonstrate how cognitive theory can be productively applied across a wide range of Classical studies, including linguistics, literary theory, history, art history, religion, theater, and archaeology. The contributors draw on both longstanding cognitivist approaches and the second wave of embodied, enactive and distributed cognition. Enriched by a wealth of interdisciplinary bibliography, the volume shows how study of the interaction between the mind-brain and its environment can shed new light on the cultures of Western antiquity.
Jennifer Larson, Kent State University, USA