Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East

• Diğer Yazarlar: Pallavidini, Marta (Editör), Portuese, Ludovico (Editör)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Harrassowitz Verlag 2020
• Seri Bilgileri: Philippika - Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen
• Konular: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; History; Classical Studies
• Online Erişim: 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...