3. Thucydides, Groupthink, and the Sicilian Expedition Fiasco

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Psychology and the Classics 1
4. 1. Embodied Cognition and the Ancient Mind
5. 1. Fundamentals for a Cognitive Semantics of Latin: Image Schemas and Metaphor in the Meaning of the Roman Animus-concept 13
6. 2 .Odyssey 20 and Cognitive Science: A Case Study 32
7. 3.Bodies of Knowledge: Metaphor and Mnemonic Practice in Ancient Historiography 46
8. 4. Feeling Words: Embodied Metaphors in Seven Against Thebes 62
9. 5 .The Affective Ancient Theatre, a Bio-cultural Cognitive Approach 77
10. 6. The Sensed Presence as an Analytical Tool in Historical Research 94
11. 7 .Transforming Knowledge: Using Arts-based Activity to Explore Classics and Therapeutic Practice 109
12. 2 .The Hermeneutics of Psychology
13. 1 .Learned Helplessness, the Structure of the Telemachy and Odysseus’ Return 129
14. 2. Anticipating Audiences: Hesiod’s Works and Days and Cognitive Psychology 142
15. 3 .Why Does Orestes Stay Mad? 158
16. 4 .The Elegiac Revolution: Deleuze, Desire, and Propertius’ Monobiblos 171
17. 5 .Staging Female Selves in Sapphic Poetry 189
18. 3 .Reviving Classical Ideas through the Centuries
19. 1. Irony in Cicero’s post reditum Speeches 207
20. 2. Psychoanalysis and the Rhetorical Tradition: Theory and Technique 223
21. 3. Thucydides, Groupthink, and the Sicilian Expedition Fiasco 239
22. 4. Mystic Initiation and the Near-Death Experience 255
23. 5 .Burton’s Anatomy as Classical, and Present-Day, Mind Science 262
24. 6. The Psychology of Psychotherapy: Ancient and Modern Perspectives 278
25. Bibliography 293
26. Index 323