Metaphor, allegory, and the classical tradition : ancient thought and modern revisions

Abstract

1. Introduction 2. Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style 3. THE HARLOT'S ART. METAPHOR AND LITERARY CRITICISM 4. Plato on metaphors and models 5. Literary metaphor and philosophical insight. The significance of Archilochus 6. The problem of metaphor. Chinese reflections 7. Metaphor and metonymy. Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and others 8. FIGURES OF ALLEGORY FROM HOMER TO LATIN EPIC 9. Allegory and exegesis in the Derveni papyrus. The origin of Greek scholarship 10. The Stoics' two types of allegory 11. The rhetoric of the Homeric Problems 12. Origen on Christ, tropology, and exegesis

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