Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-278) and indexes
Introduction / G.R. Boys-Stones -- Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style / Doreen Innes -- The harlot's art : metaphor and literary criticism / Chrostoph G. Leidl -- Plato on metaphors and models / E.E. Pender -- Literary metaphor and philosophical insight : the significance of Archilochus / Paul Crowther -- The problem of metaphor : Chinese reflections / G.E.R. Lloyd -- Metaphor and metonymy : Aristole, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and others / Michael Silk -- Figures of allegory from Homer to Latin epic / Andrew Laird -- Allegory and exegesis in the Derveni papyrus : the origin of Greek scholarship / Dirk Obbink -- The stoics' two types of allegory / G.R. Boys-Stones -- The rhetoric of the Homeric problems / Donald Russell -- Origen on Christ, tropology, and exegesis / Mark Edwards