Chiara Ferella

List of John Benjamins publications in which Chiara Ferella is involved.

Article

Ferella, Chiara 2020 Early Greek medical metaphors and the question of deliberateness Drawing Attention to Metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla and Markus Egg (eds.), pp. 129–158 | Chapter

This paper analyses deliberate metaphor use in three Hippocratic treatises and in Empedocles’ two famous similes. By exclusively examining direct metaphors and their textual markers, I first investigate the communicative function metaphors have in ancient Greek anatomical and physiological… read more