Boys-Stones G.R. (Ed.) Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions

Oxford University Press, 2003. — x, 206 p. — ISBN 0-19-924005-1, 978-0-19-924005-0.How closely do the theoretical notions of "metaphor" and "allegory" developed by ancient rhetoricians reflect the practice of Classical writers? This question is tackled through eleven new papers by a team of distinguished academics. Ancient theories of metaphor are compared with twentieth-century alternatives; theory is tested against practice; and allegory — a distinctive though neglected feature of ancient literature and philosophy — is explored against the background of the rhetoricians' claim that it is one form of metaphor.True PDF