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This paper is a study of the speeches ascribed to female animals, in Aesopic fables, as well as in Semonides, Hesiod or Archilochus. Pragmatic and cognitive definitions of metaphors and of comical paradoxes help showing that these speaking female figures participate in building up ethical representa...

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Main Author: Michel Briand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques 2012-05-01
Series:Cahiers Mondes Anciens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/759
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