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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 reexami
 ned and its scope has been expanded considerably. Thus it has been argued 
 that metaphor is not merely a form of stylistic embellishment\, but a proc
 ess of cognition by which we think\, speak\, and make sense of our environ
 ment\, especially when it comes to abstract\, difficult\, or otherwise ina
 ccessible concepts. One such difficult concept is the idea of death\, whic
 h has been demonstrated to be frequently and predominantly conceptualized 
 metaphorically.\nAfter some introductory remarks on conceptual metaphor th
 eory\, I will present examples of the copious metaphorical language of dea
 th 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 argu
 e that many Greek mythological ideas about death and the realm of the dead
  seem to be metaphorically motivated.
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/metaphor-talk-19012025-en-1/
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