Agricola and Germany (Oxford World's Classics)

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Agricola and Germany (Oxford World's Classics)

`Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.'

Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98. He was inspired to take up his pen when the assassination of Domitian ended `fifteen years of enforced silence'. The first products were brief: the biography of his late father-in-law Julius Agricola and an account of Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans. Since Agricola's claim to fame was that as governor for seven years he had completed the conquest
of Britain, begun four decades earlier, much of the first work is devoted to Britain and its people. The second is the only surviving specimen from the ancient world of an ethnographic study. Each 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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Country	USA
Author	Tacitus
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780191605291
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	OUP Oxford
Manufacturer	OUP Oxford
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	1999-03-04
Publisher	OUP Oxford
ReleaseDate	1999-03-04
Studio	OUP Oxford

Agricola and Germany (Oxford World's Classics)

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