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According to the theoretical accounts which survive in the rhetorical handbooks of antiquity, allegory is extended metaphor, or an extended series of metaphors.

Allegory and metaphor are linguistic 'tropes' : they are essentially ornamental. These essays discuss this from a variety of perspectives, examining the origin

The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred

A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their cri

Traces the development of allegory in the European and American tradition from antiquity to the modern era.