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Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment

Paperback • 2020 • 1. edition

Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment

By William Brockliss

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Responding to George Lakoff's and Mark Johnson's analysis of metaphor, William Brockliss explores the Homeric poets' use of concrete concepts drawn from the Greek natural environment to aid their audiences' understanding of abstract concepts. In particular, he considers Homeric images that associate flowers with the concepts of deception, disorder, and death, and examines the ways in which the poets engage with natural phenomena such as the brief, diverse blooms of the Greek spring.Taken togethe...Show more

Biography, Literature and Literary studies

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9780674987357

Publisher

Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

Published year

2020

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Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment

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Paperback

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