Most likely born in the south of modern France on the Mediterranean, Tacitus is one of the most famous Roman historians. Tacitus is best known for Annals and Histories, covering the history of Ancient Rome, and he also wrote Germania, a fascinating description of the Germanic people as seen from the Roman point of view circa 100 A.D.
Agricola (Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, lit. On the life and character of Julius Agricola) recounts the life of Tacitus’ father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general. It also covers 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; and the book also contains eloquent and vicious polemics against the rapacity and greed of Rome.
This edition of Agricola is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and images of Tacitus, Agricola, and ruins from the Ancient Roman settlement of Londinium.
