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...
I have been on an ancient historians bender recently. If we judge Sallust by the standards of his fellows he is clearly one of the weakest, but so far as I can see nothing bad managed to survive the dark ages to come down to us from ancient Greece or Rome. The book is worth reading as a result, bu...
Ask not what Caesar can do for you, rather ask what Caesar will do TO you when he gets back to Rome with an army behind him that has spent the last 8 years beating back hairy barbarians...Caesar's well written notes on his encounters with Gauls, Germans and Britons during 58 to 51 BC, partly for the...
Ask not what Caesar can do for you, rather ask what Caesar will do TO you when he gets back to Rome with an army behind him that has spent the last 8 years beating back hairy barbarians...Caesar's well written notes on his encounters with Gauls, Germans and Britons during 58 to 51 BC, partly for the...
Collections of these short tales with a moral were among the very first works--after the Bible--to be published on the printing press. It's amazing how many catch phrases come from these fables: Honesty is the best policy. Don't count your chickens before they've hatched. Look before you leap. Aesop...
I quite like books written by ancient historians, though we must remember the purposes of the ancient historians are a little different to modern historians (though I would argue that it is not all that different). The editor argued that ancient historians tended to have different purposes, though a...
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...
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres...I first read this remarkable little work in my high school Latin class (in the original Latin). Yes! My high school offered Latin as an elective and it wasn't Catholic.
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