“Sheep Eat Men”
A Retrospective Proverb
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20146970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Clay Doyle (0000-0001-7070-8811, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 51 (Number 197 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 166-179 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moreana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-8105 • E-ISSN: 2398-4961 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/more.2014.51.3-4.10 |
| OpenAlex | W2588181021 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The expression “Sheep are eating men” or “Sheep devour men” looks back to Utopia for its origin. However, no such concise expression actually occurs there. In recent decades the expression has frequently been quoted without awareness of the literary connection, assumed to have been proverbial in medieval or early modern times. Perhaps, in a strange way, it has become proverbial in our own time, although most often when it is uttered nowadays, it will be explicitly associated with the distant past
Art · Art history · Connection (principal bundle) · Expression (computer science) · Literature · Utopia · Computer Science · Engineering · German Literature and Culture Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Medieval Literature and History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |