• 1: G. R. Boys-Stones: Introduction
• 2: Doreen Innes: Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style
• Part 1. Metaphor
• 4: E. E. Pender: Plato on metaphors and models
• 5: Paul Crowther: Literary metaphor and philosophical insight. The significance of Archilochus
• 6: G. E. R. Lloyd: The problem of metaphor. Chinese reflections
• 7: Michael Silk: Metaphor and metonymy. Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and others
• Part 2. Allegory
• 9: Dirk Obbink: Allegory and exegesis in the Derveni papyrus. The origin of Greek scholarship
• 10: G. R. Boys-Stones: The Stoics' two types of allegory
• 11: Donald Russell: The rhetoric of the Homeric Problems
• 12: Mark Edwards: Origen on Christ, tropology, and exegesis