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Social Psychology and the Ancient World
Methods and Applications
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Social Psychology and the Ancient World: Methods and Applications fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue between classics and social psychology. Classicists use modern social-psychological insights to interpret ancient texts, while social psychologists engage with classical case studies to refine their own conceptual frameworks. This dialogue unfolds through an innovative structure: thematic sections introduced by social psychologists are paired with wide-ranging case studies by classicists, covering topics such as the psychology of tragic characters, comedic group dynamics, and the cognitive processes at play in oracles and deification. The volume offers methodological guidance for reconstructing the social psychology of past societies, addressing questions like: How did ancient Greeks understand character? How did laughter shape social cohesion? What role did emotional contagion play in narratives? How did ancient societies accommodate religious innovation? And above all: how do we know, and how can we properly investigate such questions?
Luuk Huitink, PhD 2013, is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. His research combines cognitive, linguistic and narratological approaches to Greek literature. He is, among other things, co-editor of Experience, Narrative and Criticism in Ancient Greece (OUP 2020).
Vlad GlÄveanu, PhD (2012), is Full Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology at Dublin City University and Adjunct Professor in the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology at Bergen University. He is an expert in creativity, culture, wonder, collaboration, and possibility studies.
Ineke Sluiter, FBA, PhD 1990, is Distinguished Professor of Greek at Leiden University. Her latest publications include âSituated Cognition: Sophocles, Milgram, and the Disobedient Heroâ (with Bob Corthals), in: Felix Budelmann & Ineke Sluiter (eds.) Minds on Stage. Greek Tragedy and Cognition. OUP 2023.
Contributors are: Karen Bassi, Douglas Cairns, Paula Castro, Eveline Crone, Max van Duijn, Evert van Emde Boas, Vlad GlÄveanu, Alexandra Hardwick, Luuk Huitink, Sandra Jovchelovitch, Jacqueline Klooster, David Konstan, Xenia Makri, Thomas R. Martin, Sheila Murnaghan, Anne-Sophie Noel, Ralph M. Rosen, Gordon Sammut, Ineke Sluiter, Michiel van Veldhuizen.
Vlad GlÄveanu, PhD (2012), is Full Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology at Dublin City University and Adjunct Professor in the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology at Bergen University. He is an expert in creativity, culture, wonder, collaboration, and possibility studies.
Ineke Sluiter, FBA, PhD 1990, is Distinguished Professor of Greek at Leiden University. Her latest publications include âSituated Cognition: Sophocles, Milgram, and the Disobedient Heroâ (with Bob Corthals), in: Felix Budelmann & Ineke Sluiter (eds.) Minds on Stage. Greek Tragedy and Cognition. OUP 2023.
Contributors are: Karen Bassi, Douglas Cairns, Paula Castro, Eveline Crone, Max van Duijn, Evert van Emde Boas, Vlad GlÄveanu, Alexandra Hardwick, Luuk Huitink, Sandra Jovchelovitch, Jacqueline Klooster, David Konstan, Xenia Makri, Thomas R. Martin, Sheila Murnaghan, Anne-Sophie Noel, Ralph M. Rosen, Gordon Sammut, Ineke Sluiter, Michiel van Veldhuizen.
Foreword
Preface
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: How to Do the Social Psychology of the Ancient World
âLuuk Huitink and Ineke Sluiter
Introduction to Part 1: the Psychology of Selfhood Now and Then
âSandra Jovchelovitch
2 Taming the Extraordinary: Shifting Motives and the Psychology of Tragic Actors
âSheila Murnaghan
3 Individuals or Types? Ancient Criticism and Modern Psychology on Characterization in Greek Tragedy
âEvert van Emde Boas
Introduction to Part 2: Social Representation in Practice
âGordon Sammut
4 Innovation, Group Psychology and the Comic Dêmos
âAlexandra Hardwick
5 âNot by Others but by Our Own Feathersâ: a Social-Psychological Reading of Aristophanesâ Birds
âXenia Makri
6 Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Satire: Rethinking the Laughter of Derision
âRalph M. Rosen
Introduction to Part 3: Narrative Meaning-Making
âMax J. van Duijn
7 Emotional Contagion, Empathy, and Sympathy as Responses to Verbal and Visual Narratives: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues
âDouglas Cairns
8 The Experience of Coincidence in Euripidesâ Ion
âJacqueline Klooster
9 Finding Orestes: Oracles and Abductive Reasoning
âMichiel van Veldhuizen
Introduction to Part 4: Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation across the Ages
âVlad P. GlÄveanu
10 Playing Make-Believe with Objects: Counterfactual Imagination and Psychodrama in Greek Tragedy
âAnne-Sophie Noel
11 The Posthumous Future in Sophoclesâ Oedipus at Colonus
âKaren Bassi
Introduction to Part 5: Possibilities of ExistenceâMaking and Changing Subjectivities and (Ancient) Worlds
âPaula Castro
12 How the Ancient World Learned to Sin
âDavid Konstan
13 Anchoring Religious Innovation: the Social Psychology of Deification in Athens 307 BCE
âThomas R. Martin
14 Cyrusâ Learning Curve Views of Adolescent Psychology in Xenophonâs Cyropaedia
âLuuk Huitink and Eveline Crone
Index
Preface
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: How to Do the Social Psychology of the Ancient World
âLuuk Huitink and Ineke Sluiter
Part 1: The Psychology of Selfhood: Character and Individual
Introduction to Part 1: the Psychology of Selfhood Now and Then
âSandra Jovchelovitch
2 Taming the Extraordinary: Shifting Motives and the Psychology of Tragic Actors
âSheila Murnaghan
3 Individuals or Types? Ancient Criticism and Modern Psychology on Characterization in Greek Tragedy
âEvert van Emde Boas
Part 2: Social Representations: the Role of Comedy and Satire
Introduction to Part 2: Social Representation in Practice
âGordon Sammut
4 Innovation, Group Psychology and the Comic Dêmos
âAlexandra Hardwick
5 âNot by Others but by Our Own Feathersâ: a Social-Psychological Reading of Aristophanesâ Birds
âXenia Makri
6 Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Satire: Rethinking the Laughter of Derision
âRalph M. Rosen
Part 3: Narrative Meaning-Making
Introduction to Part 3: Narrative Meaning-Making
âMax J. van Duijn
7 Emotional Contagion, Empathy, and Sympathy as Responses to Verbal and Visual Narratives: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues
âDouglas Cairns
8 The Experience of Coincidence in Euripidesâ Ion
âJacqueline Klooster
9 Finding Orestes: Oracles and Abductive Reasoning
âMichiel van Veldhuizen
Part 4: Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation
Introduction to Part 4: Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation across the Ages
âVlad P. GlÄveanu
10 Playing Make-Believe with Objects: Counterfactual Imagination and Psychodrama in Greek Tragedy
âAnne-Sophie Noel
11 The Posthumous Future in Sophoclesâ Oedipus at Colonus
âKaren Bassi
Part 5: Accommodating New Concepts
Introduction to Part 5: Possibilities of ExistenceâMaking and Changing Subjectivities and (Ancient) Worlds
âPaula Castro
12 How the Ancient World Learned to Sin
âDavid Konstan
13 Anchoring Religious Innovation: the Social Psychology of Deification in Athens 307 BCE
âThomas R. Martin
14 Cyrusâ Learning Curve Views of Adolescent Psychology in Xenophonâs Cyropaedia
âLuuk Huitink and Eveline Crone
Index
Academics and (post-graduate) students in both classics and social psychology, as well as anyone interested in the intersection between the humanities and social sciences.