Social Psychology and the Ancient World : Methods and Applications / / edited by Luuk Huitink, Vlad Glaveanu and Ineke Sluiter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911018845903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025; ©2025
• ISBN: 9789004731301
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025; Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation ; ; 8
• Disciplina: 025.4/3
• Soggetti: Social history - Methodology; Social psychologists - Methodology; Classicists - Methodology; Civilization, Classical - Historiography; Classical Studies; Social sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: How to Do the Social Psychology of the Ancient World -- Luuk Huitink and Ineke Sluiter -- Part 1: The Psychology of Selfhood: Character and Individual -- Introduction to Part 1: the Psychology of Selfhood Now and Then -- Sandra Jovchelovitch -- 2 Taming the Extraordinary: Shifting Motives and the Psychology of Tragic Actors -- Sheila Murnaghan -- 3 Individuals or Types? Ancient Criticism and Modern Psychology on Characterization in Greek Tragedy -- Evert van Emde Boas -- Part 2: Social Representations: the Role of Comedy and Satire -- Introduction to Part 2: Social Representation in Practice -- Gordon Sammut -- 4 Innovation, Group Psychology and the Comic Dêmos -- Alexandra Hardwick -- 5 “Not by Others but by Our Own Feathers”: a Social-Psychological Reading of Aristophanes’ Birds -- Xenia Makri -- 6 Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Satire: Rethinking the Laughter of Derision -- Ralph M. Rosen -- Part 3: Narrative Meaning-Making -- Introduction to Part 3: Narrative Meaning-Making -- Max J. van Duijn ; -- 7 Emotional Contagion, Empathy, and Sympathy as Responses to Verbal and Visual Narratives: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- Douglas Cairns -- 8 The Experience of Coincidence in Euripides’ Ion -- Jacqueline Klooster -- 9 Finding Orestes: Oracles and Abductive Reasoning -- Michiel van Veldhuizen -- Part 4: Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation -- Introduction to Part 4: Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation across the Ages -- Vlad P. Glăveanu -- 10 Playing Make-Believe with Objects: Counterfactual Imagination and Psychodrama in Greek Tragedy -- Anne-Sophie Noel -- 11 The Posthumous Future in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus -- Karen Bassi -- Part 5: Accommodating New Concepts -- Introduction to Part 5: Possibilities of Existence—Making and Changing Subjectivities and (Ancient) Worlds -- Paula Castro -- 12 How the Ancient World Learned to Sin -- David Konstan -- 13 Anchoring Religious Innovation: the Social Psychology of Deification in Athens 307 BCE -- Thomas R. Martin -- 14 Cyrus’ Learning Curve Views of Adolescent Psychology in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia -- Luuk Huitink and Eveline Crone -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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?