Metaphor as linguistic construct is treated as creation-myth in this book featuring photographs and writing from Athens, Greece. the House of Asterion, named after the Borges story, looks at Athens as the birthplace of metaphor, and explores how the etymology of ‘metaphor’ as word and concept has changed in relationship to the social and architectural vernacular of this ancient and perpetually reinvented city.

94 pages, 51 color photographs, text.