Reveals how certain strategic metaphors embedded in the early Western literary canon have promoted—and continue to promote—systems of inequality and social control. Collins examines texts ranging from the Homeric epics and the Platonic dialogues to Virgil's Aeneid and the Book of Revelation. Drawing on the linguistic and documentary evidence of usages in early societies, chiefly Greek and Hebrew, Collins has produced a penetrating examination of social and personal structures in those worlds.
- ISBN10 0847682382
- ISBN13 9780847682386
- Publish Date 8 August 1996 (first published 28 July 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 196
- Language English