Onderwerp: body metaphor, semantic change, viscera, ancient Rome, Latin literature, Latin poetry, Latin language, Cicero, Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, Roman republic, Roman empire, Augustan literature, Neronian literature, Latin epic, Latin elegy, Latin tragedy, conceptual metaphor theory, embodied metaphor, intertextuality, cultural discourse, situational semantics, civil war, fertility politics, Roman sacrifice