Abstract
Abstract This article offers an analysis of the conceptual metaphors lodged within a continuous block of Homeric text, Achilles’s famous speech in Iliad 9. It argues for the productivity of applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) to Homer, while also contributing to the debate concerning the diachronic roots of modern conventional metaphors. Topics considered include (1) Achilles’s extension, confirmation, and modification of the metaphors used elsewhere in the epics, (2) the different layers of metaphorical usage found in Homer, and (3) the hero’s questioning of one prevalent Homeric metaphor in his rejection of Agamemnon’s gifts as a motivation to fight.
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