The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens (eBook, PDF)

Forms of Thought
Redaktion: Clifford, Emily; Buxton, Xavier

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the imaginative processes at work in visual and verbal artefacts of Classical Athens. A fascinating reasssessment of "imagination" in this period, it is of interest to those working on ancient philosophies of mind and ancient Greek culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000912647
• Artikelnr.: 68149434

Autorenporträt

Emily Clifford is Junior Research Fellow in Greek Mythology at Christ Church College in Oxford, UK. Her research examines visual and verbal media from the Greek and Roman worlds to build a cultural history of thinking and idea-formation, currently focusing on death. She is completing a monograph on culturally-mediated reflections on death in Classical Athens. Xavier Buxton is Teaching Fellow in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. His research combines literary criticism and intellectual history to explore ways of thinking, especially thinking with emotions, in Classical Athens.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Emily Clifford and Xavier Buxton; 1. How Far, How Close? Imagining the Battle of Cunaxa in Greek Historiography
Luuk Huitink; 2. The Realms of Fantasy: Aristotle on the Phenomenality of Mental Imagery
Pia Campeggiani; 3. Morbid Phantasies: the 'After
Death' and the Dead between Imagination and Perception
Karolina Sekita; 4. An Imagined and Imagining d¿mos in Athenian Public Inscription
Leah Lazar; 5. Imagining Justice in the Athenian Lawcourt: Aeschines and Others
Guy Westwood; 6. Plato's Creative Imagination
Zacharoula Petraki; 7. Imagining Death with Painted Pots
Emily Clifford; 8. Imagining Bodies with Gorgias
David Fearn; 9. Vigilance to the Point of Magic
Tom Phillips; 10. Performing the Mind: Aeschylus' Suppliants and the Theatre of 'Deep Thought'
Xavier Buxton; Epilogue: The Ancient Imagination in Retrospect
Jä Elsner and Michael Squire.