The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory

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Peter Meineck holds the endowed chair of Professor of Classics in the Modern World at New York University USA. He is also an Honorary Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham UK and the Founding Director of Aquila Theatre. His most recent publications include Theatrocracy: Greek Drama Cognition and the Imperative for Theatre (Routledge 2017) Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks (ed. with David Konstan 2014) and a new translation of Aristophanes Frogs (forthcoming). He is also Rescue Captain of the Bedford Fire Department in New York.William Michael Short joined the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter UK in 2017 after holding positions at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Loyola University Maryland both in the USA. He has edited or co-edited several volumes of papers including Con i Romani: Studi antropologici del mondo antico (2014 in Italian) Embodiment in Latin Semantics (2016) and Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics (forthcoming). Jennifer Devereaux is an advanced PhD candidate in Classics at the University of Southern California USA. She is a member of the Computational Social Sciences Laboratory at USCs Brain and Creativity Institute and is currently a visiting postgraduate researcher at the University of Edinburgh UK in the Department of History Classics and Archaeology. She has written a number of chapters on the topics of embodied cognition historiography and rhetoric.