Researching metaphor in the Ancient Near East / / edited by Marta Pallavidini and Ludovico Portuese

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910494565503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wiesbaden : , : Harrassowitz Verlag, , 2020
• ISBN: 3-447-39022-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 pages)
• Collana: Philippika ; ; 141
• Disciplina: 808.032
• Soggetti: Ugaritic language - Figures of speech; Ugaritic language; Hittite language; Akkadian language - Figures of speech; Sumerian language - Figures of speech; Metaphor in literature; Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism; Sumerian literature - History and criticism; Metaphor - Social aspects; Metaphor - Social aspects - Middle East - History - To 1500
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Researching metaphor in the Ancient Near East : an introduction / Ludovico Portuese and Marta Pallavidini -- The lion, the shepherd, and the master of animals : metaphorical interactions and governance representations in Mesopotamian and Levantine sources / Stéphanie Anthonioz -- To serve woman : Jezebel, Anat, and the metaphor of women as food / Esther Brownsmith -- Visualizing 'death' (Môtu) in the Ugaritic texts / Joseph Lam -- Aššur is King! : The metaphorical implications of embodiment, personification, and transference in ancient Assyria / Davide Nadali -- How did they think? : towards use of metaphor theories to research the Hittite conceptual world -- Cows of battle, urinating lions, and frightened falcons : on metaphor in Sumerian literary compositions / Judith Pfitzner -- Live and let live images : metaphor and interpictoriality in neo-Assyrian art / Ludovico ; Portuese -- The significance of the embrace metaphor in the inscription KARKAMIŠ A 21 / Claudia Posani -- Metaphors and conceptual metaphors in the Mesopotamian medical texts / Silvia Salin -- Metaphor for the construction of spontaneous meaning : examples gathered from the rural landscape in Sumerian literature / Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira -- "Squeezing" like oil from a sesame seed : on the conceptual background of metaphoric expressions in Akkadian diplomatic texts originating from Ḫatti / Lisa Wilhelmi.