La representació de la casa en les parèmies catalanes de motivació grecoromana

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse how Catalan proverbs can be related to several Greco-Latin antecedents according to which the house occupies a fundamental place in people’s lives. In these proverbs, the house is represented from two different but complementary points of view: the space of intimacy, in which every individual can feel safe, and the place where the socialization of people begins, so that it constitutes a mi-crocosm governed by social rules which condition the relationships between its inhabitants.

Keywords

• paremiology
• catalan proverbs
• house
• home
• classical tradition