Why the Roman State Lasted for 2000 Years—and What We can Learn from It
Lecture
CCS Research Seminar 4 - Public Lecture presented in association with the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum During the two millennia that the Roman state lasted nearly everything changed. Rome began as an Italian city state in which people spoke Latin and worshiped pagan gods and evolved into…
The Scar, the Bow, and the Bed: Embodied Engagements in—and with—Key Moments of the Odyssey
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 5The 4E approach to cognition—according to which our cognitive processes are thought to be embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive--allows classicists to investigate from an empirical standpoint the experientiality and the impact of narrative texts, as we follow…
What Makes a Monster Horrible? Exploring the Sensory Experience of Monstrosity in Myth through Disgusting and Aversive Language
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 6Ancient Greek and Roman myths abound with vivid descriptions of giant, supernaturally powerful creatures with horrifying composite bodies and a taste for mortal destruction – monsters. Across Greek and Roman literature, monsters are most commonly portrayed as horrible…