Metaphor in Homer - Time, Speech, and Thought

How did the Homeric narrator use metaphors of time, speech, and thought to compose and structure the Iliad and Odyssey?

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Ancient and modern views on metaphor in Homer; 2. Conceptual metaphors for time in Homer; 3. Conceptual metaphors for speech in Homer; 4. Conceptual metaphors for mind, intention, and self in Homer; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Metaphor and composition in performance; Appendix 2. Homeric metaphor and the lexicon - the case of ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿.

About the author

Andreas T. Zanker is Assistant Professor of Classics at Amherst College, Massachusetts. He is the author of Greek and Latin Expressions of Meaning: The Classical Origins of a Modern Metaphor (2016) and a coeditor of Horace and Seneca: Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretations (2017).

Product details

• Authors: Andreas T. Zanker, Andreas T. (Amherst College Zanker
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781108491884
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49188-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Historical & comparative linguistics, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Historical and comparative linguistics