There are plenty of abstract uses of the preposition περί—the most comment is TOPIC with verbs of thought and communication. But with many other non-communication situations, the preposition περί often functions to express category structures. It’s spatial sense “Location Around” still provides the motivating image schema (CENTER-PERIPHERY), but reconstrued metaphorically as a point in conceptual space that affects actions or circumstances in its proximity around it.
Author: michaelaubrey
I recently realized that I never uploaded the pdf from my chapter, “Greek Prohibitions,” in The Greek Verb Revisited anywhere online. My conference slides have been available online for quite some time: Greek Prohibitions Conference Slides, but not the final chapter. That situation has now been rectified and I’ve included the book’s front matter for easier citations, should anyone so choose to do so.
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