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Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian, was inspired to take up his pen when the assassination of Domitian ended `fifteen years of enforced silence'. Agricola is the biography of his late father-in-law and an account of Roman Britain. Germania gives insight into Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans, and 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 Romeand the northern `barbarians' and the edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history. - ;`Long may the barba

Statesmen --- Germanic peoples. --- Germanic tribes --- Ethnology --- Indo-Europeans --- Teutonic race --- Agricola, Gnaeus Julius, --- Agricola, Cn. Julius, --- Agricola, Julius, --- Agricola, Cn. Julius --- Agricola,

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Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years of enforced silence. Much of Agricola, which is the biography of Tacitus' late father-in-law Julius Agricola, is devoted to Britain and its people, since Agricola's claim to fame was that as governor for seven years he had completed the conquest of Britain, begun four decades earlier. Germany provides an account of Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans, and is the only surviving example of a

Civilization, Germanic. --- Rhetoric. --- Germanic civilization --- Germanic peoples --- Teutonic civilization --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Civilization --- Rhetoric --- Agricola, Gnaeus Julius, --- Agricola, Cn. Julius, --- Agricola, Julius, --- Agricola, Cn. Julius --- Agricola, --- Rome --- History