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The Agricola and The Germania by Tacitus  Goodreads ~ Agricola is a brief biography of Tacitus father in law Julius Agricola and The Germania is a short ethnographical study into the peoples and tribes of Germany An interesting insight into Roman knowledge of centraleastern Europe at the time
The Agricola and The Germania Cornelius Tacitus  ~ The Agricola and The Germania are two important historical works by Cornelius Tacitus an ancient Roman Senator and historian The Agricola is a biography of the Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola as well as a geographic and ethnographic history of Ancient Britain
Agricola and the Germania by Tacitus 9780140455403  ~ About Agricola and the Germania The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola—the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus’ wellloved and respected fatherinlaw—and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography climate and peoples of the country and a succinct account of the early stages of the Roman occupation nearly fatally undermined by Boudicca’s revolt in AD 61 but consolidated by campaigns 
The Agricola and the Germania Summary  Study Guide ~ The Agricola a homage to a great military leader serves both as a eulogy and as a lament against the tyrannical Emperors of Rome who rewarded military achievement with disgrace and disapproval The Germania serves both as a character analysis of the inhabitants of an unknown region
The Agricola and The Germania Quotes by Tacitus ~ The Agricola and The Germania Quotes Showing 126 of 26 “They have plundered the world stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed if their enemy be rich by ambition if poor…
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus ~ Of the events of his life which transpired after he attained mans estate we know but little beyond that which he himself has recorded in his writings He occupied a position of some eminence as a pleader at the Roman bar and in 77  married the daughter of Julius Agricola a humane and honorable citizen
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Agricola book  Wikipedia ~ The Agricola is a book by the Roman historian Tacitus written c AD 98 which recounts the life of his fatherinlaw Gnaeus Julius Agricola an eminent Roman general and Governor of Britain from AD 7778 – 8384 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 
Germania book  Wikipedia ~ Ethnography had a long and distinguished heritage in classical literature and the Germania fits squarely within the tradition established by authors from Herodotus to Julius Caesar Tacitus himself had already written a similar—albeit shorter—essay on the lands and tribes of Britannia in his Agricola chapters 10–13 The work can appear moralizing at points perhaps implicitly comparing the values of Germanic tribes and those of his Roman contemporaries although a direct comparison