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@article{1468061,
author = {Franek, Juraj},
article_location = {Cambridge},
article_number = {1},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ann.2018.8},
keywords = {Muse; Homer; Hesiod; Invocation; Cognitive Science of Religion},
language = {eng},
issn = {0066-4774},
journal = {Antichthon},
title = {Invocations of the Muse in Homer and Hesiod : A Cognitive Approach},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1017/ann.2018.8},
volume = {52},
year = {2018}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1468061
AU - Franek, Juraj
PY - 2018
TI - Invocations of the Muse in Homer and Hesiod : A Cognitive Approach
JF - Antichthon
VL - 52
IS - 1
SP - 1-22
EP - 1-22
PB - Cambridge University Press
SN - 00664774
KW - Muse
KW - Homer
KW - Hesiod
KW - Invocation
KW - Cognitive Science of Religion
UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/ann.2018.8
L2 - https://doi.org/10.1017/ann.2018.8
N2 - 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.
ER -
FRANEK, Juraj. Invocations of the Muse in Homer and Hesiod : A Cognitive Approach. \textit{Antichthon}. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, vol.~52, No~1, p.~1-22. ISSN~0066-4774. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ann.2018.8.
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