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Sorry for my delay on the issue...but Constanze wrote: These examples didn't say anything more or different > > from the dry subject readings, but they did arouse passionate debate, and > > made the students feel that these were REAL issues, for the ancient world > > no less than for us today. To me that emotional connection justified > > using > > non-scholarly metaphors. But what are your teaching experiences and > > thoughts? > > I would say that we as academicians can teach what exactly is a metaphor, BUT we couldn't teach our students what is exactly an scholarly metaphor. For me, what seems important here is that we, as scholars, (1) DO use metaphors also, and (2) don't seems to matter too much WHAT kind of particular metaphor we use, since we use them for teaching purposes. As a friend of mine say, this sounds as if we are looking for hair on the egg... It seems logical too that we might look to our teaching methods and see if there's something wrong in using metaphors... Cheers, Marcelo H. Marotta Post-graduate student Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brasil _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%