1. Introduction, G. R. Boys-Stones
2. Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style, Doreen Innes
3. Part 1. Metaphor The harlot's art. Metaphor and literary criticism, Christoph Leidl
4. Plato on metaphors and models, E. E. Pender
5. Literary metaphor and philosophical insight. The significance of Archilochus, Paul Crowther
6. The problem of metaphor. Chinese reflections, G. E. R. Lloyd
7. Metaphor and metonymy. Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and others, Michael Silk
8. Part 2. Allegory Figures of allegory from Homer to Latin epic, Andrew Laird
9. Allegory and exegesis in the Derveni papyrus. The origin of Greek scholarship, Dirk Obbink
10. The Stoics' two types of allegory, G. R. Boys-Stones
11. The rhetoric of the Homeric Problems, Donald Russell
12. Origen on Christ, tropology, and exegesis, Mark Edwards