Andreas T. Zanker
Formerly known as Antonella Luporini
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andreas T. Zanker is involved.
Article
2026 Metaphors for crisis in Polybius’ cycle of constitutions and mixed constitution Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context, Leonardis, Irene (ed.), pp. 20–39 | Chapter
In this paper, I discuss the conceptual metaphors used by Polybius to articulate notions of political crisis in Book 6 of his Histories. I begin by outlining Polybius’ theory of the cycle of constitutions and the mixed constitution. I then proceed to Polybius’ metaphors for constitutional… read more
