Fabian Horn

List of John Benjamins publications in which Fabian Horn is involved.

Articles

Horn, Fabian 2026 Metaphors of ambiguity, uncertainty, and crisis in Early Greek poetry Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context, Leonardis, Irene (ed.), pp. 178–199 | Chapter

Greek mythology and Early Greek history were full of crises, including familial and civic strife or war. This is reflected in our extant sources of Archaic Greek literature, where crises are recurring and dominant themes. Though the events and effects of war and strife can be narrated directly,… read more

Horn, Fabian 2020 “Entering the house of Hades”: The formulaic language for metaphors of death and the question of deliberateness in Early Greek poetry Drawing Attention to Metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities, Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla and Markus Egg (eds.), pp. 159–188 | Chapter

This paper considers the possibility of metaphors being used in a deliberate manner in Early Greek poetry and particularly Homer’s Iliad: the epic poems of Homer are shaped by a tradition of oral composition and formulaic language which contains a wealth of metonyms and metaphors. By focusing on… read more