The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens: Forms of Thought [Paperback]

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 dmos in Athenian Public Inscription Leah Lazar; 5. Imagining Justice in the Athenian Lawcourt: Aeschines and Others Guy Westwood; 6. Platos 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 Ja[ Elsner and Michael Squire.

This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp justice or war or death, when they dreamt or deliberated, how did they do it? Did they think about what they were doing? Did they imagine an imagining mind?

European histories of the imagination have often begun with thinkers like Plato and Aristotle. By contrast, this volume is premised upon the idea that imaginative activity, and especially efforts to articulate it, can take place in the absence of technical terminology. In exploring an ancient culture of imagination mediated by art and literature, the book scopes out the roots of later, more explicit, theoretical enquiry. Chapters hone in on a l3^