Metaphorical Picture of Tiberius in Tacitus’s Annals
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https://doi.org/10.12797/CC.16.2013.16.08Keywords:
Tacitus, Virgil, Tiberius, historiography, metaphorAbstract
Metaphorical Picture of Tiberius in Tacitus’s Annals
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.
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