Ancient Greek Philosophers by Editors of Canterbury Classics

Author:Editors of Canterbury Classics
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canterbury Classics

is inappropriate; the word “king” goes beyond the dignity of the subject, and so the art is not concealed. A metaphor may be amiss because the very syllables of the words conveying it fail to indicate sweetness of vocal utterance. Thus Dionysius the Brazen in his elegies calls poetry “Calliope’s screech.” Poetry and screeching are both, to be sure, vocal utterances. But the metaphor is bad, because the sounds of “screeching,” unlike those of poetry, are discordant and unmeaning. Further, in using metaphors to give names to nameless things, we must draw them not from remote but from kindred and similar things, so that the kinship is clearly perceived as soon as the words are said. Thus in the celebrated riddle

“I marked how a man glued bronze with fire to another man’s body,”

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