Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition

G. R. Boys-Stones is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Durham

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