Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees - Metaphors and Metonyms that Construct the Homeric Odyssey

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand the architecture of the epic and its causation. Aldo Bottino combines cognitive science and discourse studies with oral poetics frameworks developed by Parry-Lord and others to offer a new interpretation of Homeric metaphor.