Agricola And Germania
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780521065948 (0521065941)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Humanities,
Literature,
Cultural,
Roman,
Ancient,
European History,
Classical Studies,
Germany
Every one of Roman’s greatest historians began their writing career with some piece, for one such man it was a biography of his father-in-law and an ethnographic work about Germanic tribes. Agricola and Germany are the first written works by Cornelius Tacitus, which are both the shortest and the on...
This is two short works by the Historian Tacitus. The Agricola is a biography of Tacitus' father in law and mostly focuses on his time campaigning in Britain. The Germania is not really so much history as a description of the ways of the people of Germany. Both works are minor, albeit fascinating...
Agricola - Librivox recordingstatue of Gnaeus Julius Agricola erected in 1894 at the Roman BathsFrom wiki: He began his career in Roman public life as a military tribune, serving in Britain under Gaius Suetonius Paulinus from 58 to 62. He was probably attached to the Legio II Augusta, but was chosen...
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