Early Greek allegory / Peter T. Struck -- Hellenistic allegory and early imperial rhetoric / Dirk Obbink -- Origen as theorist of allegory: Alexandrian contexts / Glenn W. Most -- Allegory and ascent in neoplatonism / Daniel Boyarin -- Allegory in Christian late antiquity / Peter T. Struck -- Allegory in Islamic literatures / Denys Turner -- Twelfth-century allegory: philosophy and imagination / Jon Whitman -- Allegory in the Roman De La Rose / Kevin Brownlee -- Dante and allegory / Albert R. Ascoli -- Medieval secular allegory: French and English / Stephanie Gibbs Kamath and Rita Copeland -- Medieval religious allegory: French and English / Nicolette Zeeman -- Renaissance allegory from Petrarch to Spenser / Michael Murrin -- Protestant allegory / Brian Cummings -- Allegorical drama / Blair Hoxby -- Romanticism's errant allegory / Theresa M. Kelley -- American allegory to 1900 / Deborah L. Madsen -- Walter Benjamin's concept of allegory / Howard Caygill -- Hermeneutics, deconstruction, allegory / Steven Mailloux -- Allegory happens: allegory and the arts post-1960 / Lynette Hunter.