Metaphorical Picture of Tiberius in Tacitus’s Annals

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Tacitus
• Virgil
• Tiberius
• historiography
• metaphor