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The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Emily Clifford
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-14 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp ‘justice’ or ‘war’ or
Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Miranda Anderson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Edinburgh History of Distribut

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12 essays by international experts look at how cognition is explicitly or implicitly conceived of as distributed across brain, body and world in Greek and Roman
Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond
Language: en
Pages: 834
Authors:
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-25 - Publisher: BRILL

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Emotions are at the core of much ancient literature, from Achilles’ heartfelt anger in Homer’s Iliad to the pangs of love of Virgil’s Dido. This volume ap
The Sea in the Greek Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Marie-Claire Beaulieu
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea-crossing in Greek myth and imagery by pos
Ecphrastic Shields in Graeco-Roman Literature
Language: en
Pages: 373
Authors: Karel Thein
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-30 - Publisher: Routledge

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This volume takes a fresh look at ekphrasis as a textual practice closely connected to our embodied imagination and its verbal dimension; it offers the first de
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