AGRICOLA AND GERMANY (OUP)

Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98 - the biography of his late father-in-law Julius Agricola and an account of Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans. Since Agricola's claim to fame was that he had completed the conquest of Britain, much of the first work is devoted to Britain and its people. The second is the only surviving specimen from the ancient world of an ethnographic study. This edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history and includes newly discovered evidence on Tacitus' early career.