Author: Cornelius TacitusPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 175
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Tacitus on Britain and Germany
Author: Cornelius TacitusThe Agricola and Germania of Cornelius Tacitus
Author: Cornelius TacitusPublisher:
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Category : Rome
Languages : la
Pages : 176
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The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus
Author: Cornelius TacitusPublisher:
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Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
Author: Cornelius TacitusPublisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus" by Cornelius Tacitus. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Agricola and the Germania (100 Copy Collector's Edition)
Author: TacitusPublisher: Royal Classics
ISBN: 9781772269963
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The Agricola and the Germania were written by the Roman historian Tacitus around 98 AD. The Germania describes the lands, laws, and customs of individual Germanic tribes. The Agricola, recounts the life of Tacitus' father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general and Governor of Britain. It also covers, briefly, the geography and ethnography of ancient Britain. As in the Germania, Tacitus favorably contrasts the liberty of the native Britons to the corruption and tyranny of the Empire; the book also contains eloquent and forceful polemics against the rapacity and greed of Rome. Tacitus's writings are known for their dense prose that seldom glosses the facts, in contrast to the style of some of his contemporaries. In most of his writings he keeps to a chronological narrative order, only seldom outlining the bigger picture, leaving the readers to construct that picture for themselves. Tacitus's historical style offers penetrating--often pessimistic--insights into the psychology of power politics, blending straightforward descriptions of events, moral lessons, and tightly focused dramatic accounts. This cloth-bound book includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket, and is limited to 100 copies.
The Agricola and Germania of Cornelius Tacitus
Author: Cornelius TacitusPublisher:
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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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The Germania and Agricola of Caius Cornelius Tacitus
Author: Cornelius TacitusPublisher:
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Category : Germanic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Agricola and Germania
Author: Publius TacitusPublisher:
ISBN: 9781517250867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The Agricola and Germania - Publius Cornelius Tacitus. A translation into English by A. S. Kline. Tacitus' early work Agricola, written c. AD98, is a biography of his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, covering the noted general's early life and his Governorship of Britain. Essentially a eulogy of a strikingly honest and capable Roman official, the work allows Tacitus to indulge in a quiet critique of Imperial Rome's control of the Empire under Domitian, with digressions regarding the geography and ethnography of Northern Britain. The emphasis is on the life of a virtuous soldier and official navigating through the difficult ocean of power politics, rather than on pure history and the details of provincial rule, but the Agricola is nevertheless a valuable contribution to our understanding of the period. The Germania, written about the same time, is a description of the lands, manners and customs of the German people and the individual Germanic tribes, as they were understood by the Roman Empire. Tacitus is generally favourable towards the legal, moral and religious codes of the people he is describing, but is equally ready to decry what he sees as their vices and failings. The result is a seemingly well-balanced view of a region which caused Rome much trouble and effort to bring under stable control. Like the Agricola, the Germania provides information, mostly derived at second-hand by Tacitus, concerning the largely obscure northern Empire, whose history and geography at that time we would love to know more about; information which has subsequently led to both sensible and not so sensible extrapolation and speculation from the limited amount he has to tell us. This and other texts available from Poetry in Translation (www.poetryintranslation.com).
The Germania and Agricola of Caius Cornelius Tacitus
Author: Cornelius TacitusAgricola
Author: Cornelius TacitusPublisher:
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Category : Germanic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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