Plutarch Metaphor ObservatoryFaculty of History · University of Warsaw
Faculty of History, University of WarsawUniversity of Warsaw

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Select a Plutarch work to inspect every coded fragment and its metaphors. Use the second selector to switch between metaphors inside the same fragment, then cite the currently displayed entry with a single click.

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Fragments

Metaphor details

Interactively explore metaphors

Blend domain filters with per-fragment inspection. Use the controls to highlight lexical units, read annotations, and keep the inspector in sync.

Distribution of Source Domain

Distribution of Source Domain elements

Distribution of Target Domain elements

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Find metaphors by lexical evidence

Search targets and sources by lemma, then inspect the matching fragment directly alongside the results table.

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Inspect a metaphor

Curate subsets of metaphors

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Filter metaphors

Combine any of the criteria below. Use glob expressions (e.g., Mind/**) for paths and ἀ* for lemmas.

Filter syntax help
  • Mind/** → any target path under Mind
  • Doctor/*/healing → nested source paths
  • ἀ* → lemmas starting with alpha
  • *logos → lemmas ending in logos

Metaphor type

Domains

Domain paths

Lemma patterns

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High-level corpus context

Track distributions of domains and elements to understand how Plutarch structures metaphoric reasoning across the corpus.