Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions

316 Pages·2003·0.85 MB·English

by  G. R. Boys-Stones (editor)

METAPHOR, ALLEGORY, AND THE
CLASSICAL TRADITION
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Metaphor, Allegory,
and the Classical Tradition
Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions
Edited by
G. R. BOYS-STONES
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PREFACE
In Hilary Term of 1997, baffled as I had become by ancient
definitions of allegory in the course of my own research into the
philosophical useof the term, I organized a seminar on metaphor
and allegory at Corpus Christi College Oxford, under the aegis
of the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity. The
idea was that, since ancient rhetoricians defined allegory in terms
of metaphor, the study of each might contribute to our under-
standing of the other. Joining me in the attempt were Paul
Crowther, Andrew Laird, Christoph Leidl, Geoffrey Lloyd,
Glenn Most, Donald Russell, Anne Sheppard, and Michael
Silk. I would like to thank all of them for making a successful and
enjoyable series in the first place; also Stephen Harrison, who
was Director of the Centre when the seminar was held. That I
was able to down pen and organize a seminar like this for the
frivolous (and not entirely unusual) circumstance that I found
something baffling, I owe to the British Academy and Corpus
Christi College itself, for a Junior Research Fellowship each.
The present volume is, of course, based on the seminar. It has
been helped and hindered on its course in various ways: among
our benefactors have been, from its earliest days, Hilary O’Shea,
and the anonymous readers at Oxford University Press. During
the latest stage of its production, it was materially benefited by
Tony Woodman’s advice and help. Most regrettable of the
hindrances was the death of Don Fowler, who was part of the
original proposal submitted to OUP in the Summer of 1997. We
take this opportunity once again to regret his passing.
G.B.-S.
April 2002
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors ix
Abbreviations x
1. Introduction 1
G. R. Boys-Stones
2. Metaphor, Simile, and Allegory as Ornaments of 7
Style
Doreen Innes
Part I: Metaphor
3. The Harlot’s Art: Metaphor and Literary Criticism 31
Christoph G. Leidl
4. Plato on Metaphors and Models 55
E. E. Pender
5. Literary Metaphor and Philosophical Insight: The 83
Significance of Archilochus
Paul Crowther
6. The Problem of Metaphor: Chinese Reflections 101
G. E. R. Lloyd
7. Metaphor and Metonymy: Aristotle, Jakobson, 115
Ricoeur, and Others
Michael Silk
Part II: Allegory
8. Figures of Allegory from Homer to Latin Epic 151
Andrew Laird
9. Allegory and Exegesis in the Derveni Papyrus: 177
The Origin of Greek Scholarship
Dirk Obbink
10. The Stoics’ Two Types of Allegory 189
G. R. Boys-Stones
11. The Rhetoric of the Homeric Problems 217
Donald Russell
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12. Origen on Christ, Tropology, and Exegesis 235
Mark Edwards
Bibliography 257
Index of Passages Cited 279
General Index 299
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
G. R. Boys-Stones is Lecturer in Classics at the University of
Durham.
Paul Crowther is Professor of Art and Philosophy at the
International University of Bremen.
Mark Edwards is Lecturer in Patristics at the University of
Oxford, and Tutor in Theology at Christ Church Oxford.
Doreen Innes is Emeritus Fellow of St Hilda’s College
Oxford.
Andrew Laird is Reader in Classics at the University of
Warwick.
Christoph G. Leidl is Lecturer in Classics at the University
of Heidelberg.
G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy
and Science at the University of Cambridge.
Dirk Obbink is Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature
at the University of Oxford, and Tutor in Greek and MacArthur
Fellow of Christ Church Oxford.
E. E. Pender is Lecturer in Classics at the University of
Leeds.
Donald Russell is Emeritus Professor of Classical
Literature, and Emeritus Fellow of St John’s College Oxford.
Michael Silkis Professor of Greek Language and Literature
at King’s College London.