Alexander Forte, Assistant Professor of Classics and part of the A&S Faculty Cluster in Comparative Antiquities at NYU. His research focuses on archaic Greek poetry, particularly the Homeric epics. From a broader perspective, he is interested in applying theories and methods of comparison (literary, linguistic, and intellectual-historical) as well as cognitive theories of metaphor to the study of textual traditions from a variety of ancient traditions. He has previously published on narratological metaphors in the Odyssey, the poetics of embodied repetitions in the Homeric epics, semantic complexities of metaphorical idiom as a test-case for Greco-Ugaritic comparison, and whether apparent parallels between early Greek and early Indian philosophies are best explained through the concept of ‘influence’. His first monograph, Homeric Metaphor and Cognitive Poetics, is under contract with Oxford University Press’s Cognitive Classics series.
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