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SUMMARY:“And down they went into the house of Hades”: Metaphors of Dea
 th and Mythology in Early Greek Epic
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DESCRIPTION:Metaphor Talk by Dr. Fabian Horn (LMU Munich)\n\nIn cognitive
  linguistic metaphor theory\, the traditional trope of metaphor was reexam
 ined and its scope has been expanded considerably. Thus it has been argued
  that metaphor is not merely a form of stylistic embellishment\, but a pro
 cess of cognition by which we think\, speak\, and make sense of our enviro
 nment\, especially when it comes to abstract\, difficult\, or otherwise in
 accessible concepts. One such difficult concept is the idea of death\, whi
 ch has been demonstrated to be frequently and predominantly conceptualized
  metaphorically.\nAfter some introductory remarks on conceptual metaphor t
 heory\, I will present examples of the copious metaphorical language of de
 ath in Early Greek epic poetry\, particularly drawn from the Homeric poems
 \, our earliest extant works of Ancient Greek literature. In a second step
 \, I will consider the relationship between metaphor and mythology and arg
 ue that many Greek mythological ideas about death and the realm of the dea
 d seem to be metaphorically motivated.\n\n 
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/metaphor-talk-19012025/
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