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  1. John Glucker.Veri Simile Probabile - 1995 - In Jonathan Powell (ed.), Cicero the Philosopher: Twelve Papers. New York: Clarendon Press.
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    Grouping, Simile, and Oxymoron in Pictures: A Design-Based Cognitive Approach.Norman Y. Teng & Sewen Sun - 2002 - Metaphor and Symbol 17 (4):295-316.
    Researchers have identified 2 distinctive types of pictorial displays, namely, pictorial metaphor and pictorial simile, and offered theoretical explanations of them. Regarding the distinction between pictorial metaphor and pictorial simile, we argue that symmetric image alignment of pictorial components depicting things at the object level is the principal design factor that sets pictorial simile apart from pictorial metaphor and links pictorial simile to pictorial grouping. Based on the idea of symmetric image alignment, an attempt is made (...)
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  3. The Simile of the Talus in Cicero De Finibus 3.54.William O. Stephens & Brian S. Hook - 1996 - Classical Philology 91 (1):59-61.
    Two principal questions are addressed: In De Finibus 3.54 what position does Cicero imagine the talus to fall and lie? How does this talus simile shed light on the problematic relationship between the Stoics’ doctrine of ‘preferred indifferents’ and their definition of the Good as virtue?
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  4. The Similes of Horace.Eliza Gregory Wilkins - 1935 - Classical Weekly 29:124-128.
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    Simile alle ombre e al sogno: la filosofia dell'immagine.Paolo Spinicci - 2008 - Torino: Bollati Boringhieri.
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    What similes in sāṃkhya do: A comparison of the similes in the sāṃkhya texts in the mahābhārata, the sāṃkhyakārikā and the sāṃkhyasūtra. [REVIEW]K. A. Jacobsen - 2006 - Journal of Indian Philosophy 34 (6):587-605.
    In Sāṃkhya similes are an important means to communicate basic philosophical teachings. In the texts similes are frequently used, especially in the Sāṃkhya passages in the Mahābhārata, in the Sāṃkhyakārikā and in the Sāṃkhyasūtra. This paper compares the similes in these three texts and analyses changes in the philosophy as revealed in the similes. A comparison of the similes of Sāṃkhya texts produced over more than one thousand years reveals changes in the emphasis in this philosophical system. The purpose of (...)
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    The Simile of the Fugitive Homicide, Iliad 24.480–84: Analogy, Foiling, and Allusion.Bruce Heiden - 1998 - American Journal of Philology 119 (1):1-10.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Simile of the Fugitive Homicide, Iliad 24.480–84:Analogy, Foiling, and AllusionBruce HeidenHomer elaborates "the most dramatic moment in the whole of the Iliad"1 with a unique, disturbing, and pathetic simile. Only in the scene of Priam's unheralded arrival in Achilles' lodging does the predicament of a murderer seeking refuge in a strange land ever provide the material for a Homeric illustration.(Il. 24.477–86)The simile explicitly compares only (...)
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    Metaphor, Simile, and the Exaggeration of Likeness.John Barnden - 2015 - Metaphor and Symbol 30 (1):41-62.
    This article reveals an overlooked way of interpreting sentences like “The Internet is crack [cocaine]” or “Libraries are supermarkets.” Many existing theories of metaphor could apply here. However, they can instead be interpreted in a likeness-exaggerating way, under which “Libraries are supermarkets” is simply an exaggerated way of saying that libraries are like supermarkets to a very high degree. This interpretation option follows from simple, general considerations about exaggeration and likeness scales. In this way it is preferable to the abbreviated- (...) view of metaphor, and in any case it can be added to any existing metaphor account. It has broad significance for the theory of metaphor and simile, but also provides a new, straightforward explanation of the special, likeness-strengthening effect in utterances such as “Libraries aren’t merely like supermarkets, they are supermarkets.” This effect exists despite evidence that X-is-Y metaphors do not generally convey more likeness than correspondin. (shrink)
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    A simile in Christine de pisan for Christ's conception.William Wells - 1938 - Journal of the Warburg Institute 2 (1):68-69.
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    The Simile of the Clepsydra in Empedocles.J. U. Powell - 1923 - Classical Quarterly 17 (3-4):172-.
    It is exxtraordinary what difficulties have been found from ancient times in the extract from Empedocles containing his theory of respiration, and preserved by Aristotle, De Respiratione 7, p. 473 B1.
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    The Simile of the Lover Towards the Authority in Baki’s Divan.Sıtkı Nazi̇k - 2012 - Journal of Turkish Studies 7:1859-1883.
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    Like a Virus. Similes for a Pandemic.Maria-Josep Cuenca & Manuela Romano - 2022 - Metaphor and Symbol 37 (4):269-286.
    The Covid-19 pandemic has had a great impact on the life of every inhabitant of the planet. During 2020 and 2021 a significant amount of work on how the pandemic is being conceptualized and communicated has been done. Most work has focused on the role of metaphor in the construal of specific cognitive frames. In this paper, we turn to a similar but different conceptualization mechanism, i.e. simile. Drawing from recent socio-cognitive and discursive empirical approaches to similes, this paper (...)
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  13. The Simile at Iliad 16.7-11 Once Again.David Porter - 2010 - Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 103 (4).
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    Plato's Simile of Light Again.A. S. Ferguson - 1934 - Classical Quarterly 28 (3-4):190-.
    The similes of the Sun, Line, and Cave in the Republic remain a reproach to Platonic scholarship because there is no agreement about them, though they are meant to illustrate. I propose to analyse the form of the argument, a clue that has never been properly weighed. The Greek theory and practice of analogia and diairesis give good evidence about the method that Plato adopted; if this usage were respected, the analogical argument would not be so loosely interpreted, and the (...)
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    The Simile at Iliad 16.7–11 Once Again: Multiple Meanings.David Porter - 2010 - Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 103 (4):447-454.
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    Three Similes.Peter Skilling - 1981 - Buddhist Studies Review 6 (2):105-112.
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    Plato's Soul-Book Simile and Stoic Epistemology.Paolo Togni - 2013 - Méthexis 26 (1):163-185.
    The purpose of this paper is to contribute to shed some light on the early Stoics' practice of managing platonic suggestions to construct their epistemology. Instances of such a practice, which scholars have recently focussed on, are the Stoic reassessment of the account of phantasia Plato offers in the Sophist and the image of the wax block as discussed in the Theaetetus. In this work I put forward a comparison between the simile of the soul-book, as presented by Socrates (...)
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  18. Reductive and nonreductive simile theories of metaphor.Lynne Tirrell - 1991 - Journal of Philosophy 88 (7):337-358.
    Metaphor is commonly taken to be an elliptical simile. This article offers a rational reconstruction of two types of simile theories of metaphor: reductive and non-reductive. Careful analysis shows the differences between these theories, but in the end, neither does the explanatory work it sets out to do. In assimilating metaphor to simile and simile to literal comparison, the reductive simile theory obscures what is most important to an account of metaphor: an account of what (...)
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    Homer and the Simile at Sea.Alex Purves - 2024 - Classical Antiquity 43 (1):97-123.
    In this paper I consider ways in which seawater––both on its surface and in its depths––opens up alternative forms of thought and expression in Homer, especially with respect to the body. By tracking the relationship between body and simile as it is mediated by the surface of the sea, I argue that water emerges as an especially mobile and adaptive medium for expressing the transformation that takes place between self and simile in Homer. In the Iliad, similes are (...)
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    The Similes in Catullus 64.Paul Murgatroyd - 1997 - Hermes 125 (1):75-84.
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  21. The 'Simile Of Light' In Plato'S Republic.N. R. Murphy - 1932 - Classical Quarterly 26 (02):93-.
    At the end of Republic VI. Socrates compares the Good with the sun as a cause both of existence and intelligibility. Afterwards, when he continues and expands this comparison, the symbolism becomes so complex that the interpretation of almost every part of it is in dispute. We start with the contrast of light and darkness; to this is next added the contrast of image and original, and also of up and down along a vertical line; in the allegory of the (...)
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  22. Plato's Simile of Light. Part I. The Similes of The Sun and The Line.A. S. Ferguson - 1921 - Classical Quarterly 15 (3-4):131-.
    No part ot Plato's writings has been more debated than the three similes in Books VI.-VII. of the Republic, and still there is a diversity of opinion about their meaning. I believe that most of these difficulties arise from certain assumptions about their purpose which need revision. The current view applies the Cave to the Line, as Plato seems to direct, and this application, which is itself attended by considerable difficulties, leads to an assimilation of the two figures till they (...)
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  23. Plato's Simile of Light . Part II. The Allegory of the Cave.A. S. Ferguson - 1922 - Classical Quarterly 16 (1):15-28.
    The first part of this paper argued that the traditional application of the Cave to the Line was not intended by Plato, and led to a misunderstanding of both similes. The Cave, it was said, is attached to the simile of the Sun and the Line by the visible region outside the cave, which is a reintegration of the symbolism of sun, originals and images in the sunlight, and the new system of objects inside the cave is compared and (...)
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    The Apollo Similes at Propertius 4.6.31-36.Gottfried Mader - 1990 - Hermes 118 (3):325-334.
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    Apollo in the Vulture Simile of the Oresteia.Robert J. Rabel - 1982 - Mnemosyne 35 (3-4):324-326.
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    The World Of Similes That The Poets Of The Classıcal Turkish Poetry Form Around “Zevrak”.Selami Turan - 2009 - Journal of Turkish Studies 4:1007-1039.
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    Anaximenes' πινον simile.Peter J. Bicknell - 1966 - Apeiron 1 (1):17 - 18.
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  28. Wittgenstein on Simile as the “Best Thing” in Philosophy1.Yasemin J. Erden - 2011 - Philosophical Investigations 35 (2):127-137.
    In a remark written sometime between 1933 and 1943, Wittgenstein suggests that philosophy ought really to be written as one “writes a poem.” Around this time he also talks of simile as the “best thing” in philosophy. In this paper I consider what it would mean to take such claims seriously. Through examining newly discovered material from the Skinner manuscripts, I offer an analysis of Wittgenstein's approach to literary techniques and see how this impacts on his conception of philosophy.
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    Metaphor and Simile: Preliminary Notes to a Discussion of Norms and Values.István Mészáros - 1967 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 67 (1):127 - 144.
    István Mészáros; IX—Metaphor and Simile: Preliminary Notes to a Discussion of Norms and Values, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 67, Issue 1, 1 J.
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    Imagination for Philosophical Exercise in Plato’s Republic: The Story of Gyges’ Ring and the Simile of the Sun.Noburu Notomi - 2019 - In Evan Keeling & Luca Pitteloud (eds.), Psychology and Ontology in Plato. Cham: Springer Verlag.
    In order to re-examine what role Plato gives to images in the Republic, this chapter argues against modern commentators’ views and demonstrates that for Plato, images represent reality in special ways and that the simile is not simply a didactic method of explaining familiar objects, but is an effective method of inquiry to reveal a reality unknown to us. First it shows that Plato ascribes to images a special role of transforming our souls, by examining the famous story of (...)
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    Homeric Similes Carroll Moulton: Similes in the Homeric Poems. (Hypomnemata, 49). Pp. 163. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977. Paper. [REVIEW]Oliver Taplin - 1980 - The Classical Review 30 (02):183-184.
  32. Metaphor, Simile, and Allegory as Ornaments of Style.Doreen Innes - 2003 - In G. R. Boys-Stones (ed.), Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions. Oxford University Press.
     
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    Simile and Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Marie Louise von Glinski.Alessandro Barchiesi - 2013 - Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 107 (1):131-132.
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    Fish similes and converging story lines in the odyssey.Ineke Sluiter - 2014 - Classical Quarterly 64 (2):821-824.
    It has long been noted that there are links between the Homeric portrayals of Odysseus' companions and the suitors. These two largely anonymous groups of Ithacans are connected not only by their ἀτασθαλίαι but also by the fact that by the end of theOdysseyboth groups will be dead. Clearly, these fatalities are – in their different ways – crucial to the story. Nagler regards the death of the suitors as a ‘grim inversion’ of the death of Odysseus' crew. Odysseus himself (...)
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  35. Símil.Jesús Alcolea - 2011 - In Luis Vega and Paula Olmos (ed.), Compendio de Lógica, Argumentación y Retórica. [Madrid]: Editorial Trotta. pp. 562--563.
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    «Piú simile a mostro Che a uomo»: La bruttezza E l'incultura di Carlo VIII nella rappresentazione degli italiani Del rinascimento.Carlo De Frede - 1982 - Bibliothèque d'Humanisme Et Renaissance 44 (3):545-585.
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    Medical Similes in Religious Discourse: The Case of Giovanni di San Gimignano OP (ca. 1260–ca. 1333).Joseph Ziegler - 1995 - Science in Context 8 (1):103-131.
    The ArgumentBy the beginning of the fourteenth century, medicine had acquired a cultural role in addition to its traditional functions as a therapeutic art. Medical subject matter infiltrated the religious discourse via the new thirteenth-century encyclopedic literature. Preachers came to employ in their moral analogies a wider range of medical topics, using sophisticated medical examples and citations attributed to recognized medical authorities. These developments coincided with the growing prestige of medicine as an academic discipline.
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    Evidence for the Role of Shape in Mental Representations of Similes.Lisanne van Weelden, Joost Schilperoord & Alfons Maes - 2014 - Cognitive Science 38 (2):303-321.
    People mentally represent the shapes of objects. For instance, the mental representation of an eagle is different when one thinks about a flying or resting eagle. This study examined the role of shape in mental representations of similes (i.e., metaphoric comparisons). We tested the prediction that when people process a simile they will mentally represent the entities of the comparison as having a similar shape. We conducted two experiments in which participants read sentences that either did (experimental sentences) or (...)
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    Virgilian multiple-correspondence similes and their antecedents.David West - 1970 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 114 (1-2):262-275.
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  40. Omne agens agit sibi simile. A 'Repetition' of Scholastic Metaphysics.Philipp W. Rosemann - 1998 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 60 (1):173-174.
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    The Aviary Simile in the Theaetetus.H. D. P. Lee - 1939 - Classical Quarterly 33 (3-4):208-.
    The following remarks on the aviary simile have been prompted by Professor Hackforth's article in C.Q. January 1938, pp. 27 ff., in which he in turn comments on certain points in Professor Cornford's treatment in his Plato's Theory of Knowledge. Commenting on 199c–d C. suggests that P.'s criticism in that passage might be met by the inclusion in the aviary of ‘complex objects such as the “sum of 7 and 5”.… It is this object that I identify with 11 (...)
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    An similes apud Deum et percipientem ideae dici possint (commentaire de David Raynor, “Berkeley's Ontology”).François Duchesneau - 1987 - Dialogue 26 (4):621-.
    David Raynor aborde une pluralité de thèmes chez Berkeley, qui se rapportent soit à la signification ambiguë de l'immatérialisme par rapport à la philosophie spontanée des gens ordinaires, soit au dosage savant de réalisme et d'idéalisme dans une philosophie qui élabore une critique radicale de la doctrine de l'idée-représentation. Il est intéressant de noter que Raynor ne s'en laisse pas raconter par certains interprètes classiques de la pensée berkeleyenne et qu'il sait tirer avantageusement parti d'une confrontation de Berkeley avec des (...)
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    The Final Simile in the Aeneid: Roman and Rutulian Ramparts.R. J. Schork - 1986 - American Journal of Philology 107 (2).
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    Omne Agens Agit Sibi Simile: A "Repetition" of Scholastic Metaphysics (review).John Inglis - 1998 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1):131-133.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Omne Agens Agit Sibi Simile: A “Repetition” of Scholastic Metaphysics by Philipp W. RosemannJohn InglisPhilipp W. Rosemann. Omne Agens Agit Sibi Simile: A “Repetition” of Scholastic Metaphysics. Louvain Philosophical Studies, Vol. 12. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1996. Pp. 368. Paper, BF 1,450.The technical sounding title of this volume could mislead the reader into thinking that it concerns some obscure point of Latin medieval thought, rather than (...)
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    Reinterpreting the Homeric Simile of Iliad 16.7–11: The Girl and Her Mother In Ancient Greek Warfare.Kathy L. Gaca - 2008 - American Journal of Philology 129 (2):145-171.
    Though long regarded as a scene of mother-daughter domesticity during peacetime, Iliad 16.7–11 reveals the destruction of normal life for a daughter and her mother on the verge of being captured by ancient Greek warriors. As such it provides exemplary insight into this fundamental aspect of ancient warfare. Further, as reinterpreted here, the simile gains great dramatic and emotive power, strengthens the Homeric characterization of Achilles as a forthright speaker given to poetic realism, and heightens the tragedy of Patroclus (...)
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    A Simile in Aristotle's Rhetoric (iii. 9. 6).H. A. Harris - 1974 - The Classical Review 24 (02):178-179.
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    Different but the Same: Mental Representations of Negated Similes.Lisanne van Weelden, Joost Schilperoord & Alfons Maes - 2017 - Metaphor and Symbol 32 (1):19-29.
    When people comprehend language, they mentally represent object shape. Previous research has shown that objects that are mentioned in a simile construction are represented as similarly shaped. The present study examined object shape in mental representations of negated similes. In our experiment participants read negated similes or control sentences without a comparison structure. After having read the sentence, they judged whether two presented objects, which were either similarly or dissimilarly shaped, were previously mentioned. Our findings showed that for the (...)
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    Expressing negative opinions through metaphor and simile in popular music reviews.Marcin Trojszczak - 2024 - Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 20 (2):325-347.
    The present paper aims to investigate the role played by figurative language, in particular metaphor and simile, in expressing negative opinions in reviews of popular music albums. In order to explore this phenomenon at the intersection of cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and pragmatics, it makes use of language data gathered from selected critical reviews of music albums from a reputed English-speaking music website Pitchfork.com. More specifically, the paper analyses selected instances of negatively-laden metaphors and similes so as to demonstrate (...)
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    Time and Human Fragility in the Landscape Similes of the Iliad.Chloe Bray - 2022 - Classical Quarterly 72 (1):25-38.
    This article explores the propensity of Iliadic landscape similes to encourage reflections on human fragility. Landscape in the similes is usually interpreted as a medium which conveys a consistent symbolic value (for example storms as the hostility of nature); however, landscape is often a more flexible medium. By offering close readings of three Iliadic similes (winter torrents at 4.452–6, snowfall at 12.279–89 and clear night at 8.555–9), this article argues that landscape allowed the poet to frame the main narrative in (...)
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    Implied Vengeance in the Simile of Grieving Vultures (Odyssey 16.216–19).Odyssey Re-Formed - 2006 - Classical Quarterly 56:1-11.
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