Tiberius on Caligula the snake and other contextual problems

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dc.contributor.authorWoods, David
dc.date.accessioned2009-04-21T14:13:24Z
dc.date.available2009-04-21T14:13:24Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractIt is my suggestion that Tiberius fled Rome because he interpreted the death of his pet snake as the warning of a threat to the life of one of his current favourites and intended successors, Caligula, rather than to his own life. Yet Suetonius, or perhaps the author of his immediate source, has torn Tiberius’ words from their original context so that they appear to depict Caligula as the threat rather than the victim. The similarities between the accounts by Tacitus and Suetonius of the last days of Tiberius encourage the belief that they relied on the same main source for this period, or some edition of the same source at least.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationWoods, D., 2007. Tiberius on Caligula the snake and other contextual problems. Arctos Acta Philologica Fennica, 47, pp.117-127en
dc.identifier.endpage127en
dc.identifier.issn0066-6998
dc.identifier.journaltitleArctos Acta Philologica Fennica
dc.identifier.startpage117en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10468/34
dc.identifier.volume47en
dc.internal.IRISemailaddressd.woods@ucc.ieen
dc.internal.authorcontactotherDr. David Woods, Department of Classics, UCC. Email: d.woods@ucc.ie Tel. +353 21 490 3491en
dc.internal.authorurlhttp://publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/A008/dwoodsen
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherKlassillis-filologinen yhdistys–Klassisk-filologiska föreningen (The Classical Association of Finland)en
dc.subjectTiberiusen
dc.subjectCaligulaen
dc.subjectSuetoniusen
dc.subjectTacitusen
dc.subjectomenen
dc.subjectRoman historyen
dc.subject.lcshCaligula, Emperor of Rome, 12-41en
dc.subject.lcshRome -- History -- Tiberius, 14-37en
dc.titleTiberius on Caligula the snake and other contextual problemsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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