This paper applies Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Blending theory to explore the development of the phrase “people-eating king” across the background of cultural metaphors for leadership. First, I present a brief definition of the conceptual metaphor. Then I survey some primary metaphors for leadership in early Greek epic: the father-king, and the shepherd of the host. The investigation covers how various elements of each metaphor are activated in myth, creating an interconnection myths of Lykaon, who becomes a werewolf by eating people, Agamemnon, who sacrifices his own daughter, and Odysseus, who kills his own people. The stories around these leaders, I argue, emerge from anxieties about the consumptive potential of leadership through a c...
© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article explores how storytelling and Greek mythology within clas...
© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article explores how storytelling and Greek mythology within clas...
The exposition attempts to use Micah’s metaphor of shepherd-king (Mi 2:12–13) as a heuristic ethical...
Chapter in Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership: Critical and Philosophical Reflections (2020), ed...
The contentions of meaning implicit in the metaphors and symbols of the Good Shepherd Parable bear u...
Apart from the Doloneia in book X, the extended scene in book XI where he is wounded, and the Funera...
Leadership theorists’ have time immemorial endeavoured to conceptualise the best leadership models t...
Apart from the Doloneia in book X, the extended scene in book XI where he is wounded, and the Funera...
Devouring empires : the Persian Empire, Athens at the fifth century BC and the food metaphor of powe...
Devouring empires : the Persian Empire, Athens at the fifth century BC and the food metaphor of powe...
The purpose of this paper is not so much to critique what Michel Foucault has to say on the idea of ...
We live in a leadership-obsessed society. The result is that we assume nearly any social or economic...
This paper suggests that metaphors are essential to understanding leadership. Metaphors can serve as...
I perceive as a good leader will be different to what you perceive as a good leader. And different a...
This thesis investigates the concept of leadership in four comedies of Aristophanes. In the first ch...
© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article explores how storytelling and Greek mythology within clas...
© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article explores how storytelling and Greek mythology within clas...
The exposition attempts to use Micah’s metaphor of shepherd-king (Mi 2:12–13) as a heuristic ethical...
Chapter in Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership: Critical and Philosophical Reflections (2020), ed...
The contentions of meaning implicit in the metaphors and symbols of the Good Shepherd Parable bear u...
Apart from the Doloneia in book X, the extended scene in book XI where he is wounded, and the Funera...
Leadership theorists’ have time immemorial endeavoured to conceptualise the best leadership models t...
Apart from the Doloneia in book X, the extended scene in book XI where he is wounded, and the Funera...
Devouring empires : the Persian Empire, Athens at the fifth century BC and the food metaphor of powe...
Devouring empires : the Persian Empire, Athens at the fifth century BC and the food metaphor of powe...
The purpose of this paper is not so much to critique what Michel Foucault has to say on the idea of ...
We live in a leadership-obsessed society. The result is that we assume nearly any social or economic...
This paper suggests that metaphors are essential to understanding leadership. Metaphors can serve as...
I perceive as a good leader will be different to what you perceive as a good leader. And different a...
This thesis investigates the concept of leadership in four comedies of Aristophanes. In the first ch...
© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article explores how storytelling and Greek mythology within clas...
© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article explores how storytelling and Greek mythology within clas...
The exposition attempts to use Micah’s metaphor of shepherd-king (Mi 2:12–13) as a heuristic ethical...