Invocations of the Muse in Homer and Hesiod : A Cognitive Approach

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/ann.2018.8" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1017/ann.2018.8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ann.2018.8" target="_blank" >10.1017/ann.2018.8</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Invocations of the Muse in Homer and Hesiod : A Cognitive Approach
Original language description
In this paper, I offer a cognitive analysis of the invocations of the Muse in earliest Greek epic poetry that is based on recent advances in cognitive science in general and the cognitive science of religion in particular. I argue that the Muse-concept most likely originated in a feeling of dependence on an external source of information to provide the singer with the subject matter of their song. This source of information is conceptualised as an ontological type (or template) ‘person’ by means of the hyperactive agency detection, and the Muse’s full access to strategic information, along with other characteristics, establishes her as a minimally counter-intuitive concept (that is to say a concept that conforms to most of our intuitive expectations and runs counter to a few of them), which, in turn, significantly increases the probability of the acquisition and transmission of the Muse-concept within the culture.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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