Toward a cognitive classical linguistics : the embodied basis of constructions in Greek and Latin Frontmatter Contents Introduction. Toward a cognitive classical linguistics Mocciaro Egle Short William Michael 1 Aspect and construal A cognitive linguistic approach to iterativity habituality and genericity in Greek Allan Rutger J. 2 A construction grammar analysis of ancient Greek particles Drummen Annemieke 3 The embodied basis of discourse and pragmatic markers in Greek and Latin Fedriani Chiara 4 Reversive constructions in Latin: the case of re (and dis ) Brucale Luisa 5 Autόs and the center periphery image schema Bonifazi Anna 6 Aspects of aural perception in Homeric Greek Luraghi Silvia Sausa Eleonora 7 The role of spatial prepositions in the Greek lexicon of garments Papadopoulou Maria 8 Metaphor by any other name. A cognitive linguistic reassessment of Aristotles theory of metaphor Membrez Greg 9 Animus inscriptus An out of body embodiment Collins Christopher 10 Metaphorical word order DAnselmi Luca Index This volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics. Building on the momentum currently enjoyed by cognitive functional approaches to language within the field of Classics its contributors adopt in particular a constructional approach that treats morphosyntactic constructions as meaningful in and of themselves. Thus they are able to address the role of human cognitive embodiment in determining the meanings of linguistic phenomena as diverse as verbal affixes discourse particles prepositional phrases lexical items and tense semantics in both Greek and Latin