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The study of the human mind as advanced by the inter-related fields of neuroscience, cognitive theory, psychology, biology and philosophy has made great advances in recent decades and is now starting to be applied to how people thought in the ancient world. Now instead of perceiving ancient artifacts as distant objects to observe in a glass case at a museum we can engage with them as the living remnants of an ancient thought process. In this talk with practical demonstrations, Professor Meineck will show how modern studies and theories of cognition have been applied to antiquity and the experience of the ancient theatre in particular and how we can better understand the function of the ancient sanctuary, the tragic mask, movement and music and why Plato, Aristotle and Isocrates all wrote that the theatre has the power “to move the soul”.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 3:30pm
Virtual EventJulie Pechanek
336-758-5330
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