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Agricola and Germany (Oxford World's Classics)

By Tacitus

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1999
ISBN
0192833006, 9780192833006
LCC
DG291.7.A2 T313 1999
Google Books ID
wQHol96ER4cC
Open Library ID
OL372910M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1398420 bytes)
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Pages
225\225
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years of enforced silence. Much of Agricola, which is the biography of Tacitus' late father-in-law Julius Agricola, is devoted to Britain and its people, since Agricola's claim to fame was that as governor for seven years he had completed the conquest of Britain, begun four decades earlier. Germany provides an account of Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans, and is the only surviving example of an ethnographic study from the ancient world. Each book in its way has had immense influence on our perception of Rome and the northern barbarians. This edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history and includes newly discovered evidence on Tacitus' early career.

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