The field "Antiquity" in the modern political discourse
The article covers the elements of the lexico-semantic field “ANTIQUITY” and their usage in the modern political discourse. Being based on the material of the Russian National Corpus the article presents the metaphorical usage of mythologemas, which got their figurative meaning in Russian, idioms and proper nouns related to Antiquity(including Ancient Greece myths) and precedent proper names. The frequency of their usage contributes to the process of making these words clichés of the newspaper style. The examples show how different functions of political metaphor are actualized in the context, they are: cognitive, communicative, pragmatic and aesthetic.