Emanuele Lelli

Through a linguistic and philological examination of the thousands of occurrences known to us, it is possible to delineate a culturally and anthropologically emic history of ancient Greek proverbial and sententious terminology. The Greeks used the term παροιμία, from its earliest attestations in the mid-5th century BCE until at least the early Imperial period, to indicate short forms characterized by their shareability and traditional nature (παλαιά), metaphorical yet always devoid of authorship...