The Classical Origins of a Modern Metaphor
by
Andreas T. Zanker
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Verbs and nouns of meaning in ancient Greek and Latin are polysemous, just as in the case of the English verb “to mean". Andreas T. Zanker considers how the ancient vocabulary could be used in different ways and investigates its development over time. In the first part of the book, Zanker argues...