Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East

• Andere auteurs: Pallavidini, Marta (Redacteur), Portuese, Ludovico (Redacteur)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Harrassowitz Verlag 2020
• Reeks: Philippika - Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen
• Onderwerpen: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; History; Classical Studies
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Metaphor has intrigued philosophers, rhetoricians, and poets since Antiquity. The phenomenon of metaphor has been mostly interpreted as a figure of speech, and only in last decades of the 20th Century the so-called cognitive turn defined metaphor as a product first of the thought and then of the lan...