Metaphorical Picture of Tiberius in Tacitus’s Annals
Metaphorical Picture of Tiberius in Tacitus’s Annals
Author(s): Justyna MigdałSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: Tacitus, Virgil; Tiberius; historiography; metaphor
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the way of presenting Tiberius in Tacitus’ Annals; it concentrates on the analysis of diction and metaphors (Tiberius as a snake, the metaphors of clothing, of siege and of fire). Possible analogies with Vergilian metaphors of the fall of Troy are also taken into account.
Journal: Classica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 101-112
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English