Agricola and Germania (Penguin Classics)

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The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola—the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus’ well-loved and respected spouse’s father—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 rebel in AD 61 but consolidated by campaigns that took Agricola so far as Anglesey and northern Scotland. The warlike German tribes are the point of interest of Tacitus’ attention in the Germania, which, like the Agricola, steadily compares the behaviour of “barbarian” peoples favourably with the decadence and corruption of Imperial Rome.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the most efficient works all over history and across genres and disciplines. Readers believe the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and latest authors, in addition to up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.


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