Metaphorical Picture of Tiberius in Tacitus’s

• Authors: Migdał Justyna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Tacitus; Virgil; Tiberius; historiography; metaphor

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Classica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 16
• Pages: 101-112

Contributors

author

Migdał Justyna

• Jagiellonian University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/CC.16.2013.16.08