PART 4 (FINAL) of an interview in which Anna Bonifazi and Riccardo Ginevra share their interest in applying the cognitive-linguistic concept of compression to the analysis of ancient Greek and other ancient Indo-European myths. A particularly congenial script for such an application is the tale of catabatic journeys: mythological characters or heroes get the chance to enter the subterranean world with some purpose in mind, and manage to come back alive. The interviewer, Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas, a cognitive scientist and classicist himself, gets the interviewees involved in a conversation on what makes our minds able to discern catabatic elements in ancient myths, and more in general on viable tools for a more comprehensive understanding of conceptual systems in ancient traditions.

Interviewees: Dr. Riccardo Ginevra (Dipartimento di Filologia classica, Papirologia e Linguistica storica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano); Prof. Anna Bonifazi (Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln). Interviewer: Prof. Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas (Dept. of English Philology, Universidad de Murcia)