1 - Introduction
2 - Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style
3 - The harlot's art. Metaphor and literary criticism
4 - Plato on metaphors and models
5 - Literary metaphor and philosophical insight. The significance of Archilochus
6 - The problem of metaphor. Chinese reflections
7 - Metaphor and metonymy. Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and others
8 - Figures of allegory from Homer to Latin epic
9 - Allegory and exegesis in the Derveni papyrus. The origin of Greek scholarship
10 - The Stoics' two types of allegory
11 - The rhetoric of the Homeric Problems
12 - Origen on Christ, tropology, and exegesis