Minds on Stage

Felix Budelmann is Professor of Classics at the University of Groningen. Prior to that, he held positions at Manchester (1998-2001), the Open University (2003-2008) and Oxford (2008-2021). He works on Greek literature, and has a particular interest in the cognitive humanities. Ineke Sluiter FBA, PhD Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1990) has been Professor of Greek at Leiden University since 1998. She works on ancient ideas on language (grammar, rhetoric, literary criticism), cognitive approaches to ancient literature, 'anchoring innovation' in the ancient world, and the relevance of the Humanities in the modern world. She is the recipient of a 2010 Spinoza Award, and was Vice-President and then President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2018-2022. She is a member of the Academia Europaea.

1: Felix Budelmann: Introduction
Part I Reading Minds
2: Evert van Emde Boas: Mindreading, character, and realism: the case of Medea
3: Sheila Murnaghan: Reading the mind of Ajax
4: Michael Carroll: Space for deliberation: image schemas, metaphorical reasoning, and the dilemma of Pelasgus
Part II Cognitive Work by Characters
5: Ruth Scodel: Attribution and Antigone
6: Lucy van Essen Fishman: 'Remember to what sort of man you give this favour': Looking back on Sophocles' Ajax
7: Anne-Sophie Noel: Thinking through things: extended cognition as a consolatory fiction in Greek tragedy
Part III Performance, Spectating, and Cognition
8: Hanna Golab: Spectating ancient dramas: the Athenian audience and its emotional response
9: Jonas Grethlein: Gorgias' apatê, Sophocles' Electra, and cognitive criticism
10: A. C. Duncan: Seeing together: joint attention in Attic tragedy
11: Seth L. Schein: Generic expectations and the interpretation of Attic tragedy some preliminary questions and considerations
12: Bob Corthals and Ineke Sluiter: Situated cognition. Sophocles, Milgram, and the disobedient hero