The project brings together classicists and philosophers working at the intersection of ancient Greek literature, cognitive history, conceptual metaphor theory, experimental philosophy, and digital corpus research.
Julia Doroszewska
Principal Investigator
Faculty of History, University of Warsaw
Classicist specializing in imperial Greek and Latin prose, history of mentality, and literary anthropology. She leads the NCN Sonata Bis project Thinking of Thinking: Conceptual Metaphors of Cognition in the Plutarchan Corpus.
Orestis Karatzoglou
Postdoctoral researcher
Faculty of History, University of Warsaw
Classicist specializing in classical Greek philosophy, especially Plato. His work connects ancient philosophical psychology, embodied cognition, and metaphorical models of knowledge.
Laurens van der Wiel
Postdoctoral researcher
Faculty of History, University of Warsaw
Classicist focused on early imperial Greek literature, with particular expertise in Plutarch. His research includes Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata and the literary culture of the Roman Empire.
Angelina Gerus
Doctoral researcher
University of Warsaw
Classicist working in cognitive classics. In the project she develops research on animal metaphors of cognition in Plutarch and contributes to corpus annotation and interpretation.
Katarzyna Kuś
Investigator
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
Philosopher specializing in epistemology and experimental philosophy, especially philosophy of mind and language. She heads the Laboratory of Experimental Philosophy “KogniLab”.
Bartosz Maćkiewicz
Investigator
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
Philosopher specializing in epistemology and experimental philosophy, especially philosophy of mind and language. He also develops programming and corpus-research components of the project.
Project framework
Host and funding
NCN Sonata Bis project
The project is hosted by the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, and funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, under grant 2021/42/E/HS3/00259. The project runs from 15 July 2022 to 14 July 2027.
Team profile
Classics, philosophy, and corpus work
The team combines expertise in Plutarch, imperial Greek prose, Greek philosophy, cognitive classics, epistemology, experimental philosophy, and digital methods for structured corpus research.
Research exchange
Workshops and invited expertise
The project develops its methods through scholarly exchange, including workshops on conceptual metaphors as tools in cognitive history with researchers working on ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit materials.
Collaborative work
Shared conceptual model
Classicists and philosophers jointly define the target domain of cognition and develop the source-target scene and subframe model used in annotation.
Manual philological coding
Team members identify metaphorical passages, segment the text, define scenes and subframes, and compare annotation decisions in order to make interpretive work auditable.
Discussion and reconciliation
Disagreements are reviewed and used to refine the annotation guidelines, strengthening consistency without hiding the interpretive nature of the work.
Public-facing research infrastructure
The corpus, validation routines, and interface are designed to let users inspect Plutarchan passages, metaphor records, lexical units, lemmata, subframes, and coder notes.
Selected sources
Project record
National Science Centre
NCN project record confirms the project title, grant number, host institution, Principal Investigator, funding, and 2022-2027 duration.
Faculty profiles
University of Warsaw
Faculty pages provide public biographical information for Julia Doroszewska, Orestis Karatzoglou, and Laurens van der Wiel.
Research network
Workshop report
The Faculty of History workshop report confirms participation by the research team and invited scholars in the 2025 workshop on conceptual metaphors and cognitive history.