Penguin Classics Agricola and Germania, (Paperback)

from mattries37315

Every one of Roman's greatest historians began their writing career with some piece, for one such man it was a biography of his father-in-law and an ethnographic work about Germanic tribes. Agricola and Germany are the first written works by Cornelius Tacitus, which are both the shortest and the ...

from janerawoof

I have finished Agricola. Translation has given no problems: easy to understand. This was a short biography of G. Julius Agricola's early private and public life, army, and rise through the cursus honorum. Agricola is pictured as quite a paragon, all through Tacitus' biography. Of course, Tacitus...

from Whicker

An enjoyable, easy read. If you are interested in history of the Roman Empire or ancient Europe, this should definitely be on your list.

from stillatim

A bit of a let down, but that's because I was really excited to read these works, and, well, meh. I suspect that that isn't Tacitus' fault. These books, by and large, should be easy to understand, given a few historical notes. The editor, unfortunately, pitches this somewhere between Cambridge gr...

from DinadansFriend

Tacitus' AGRICOLA bio, and his GERMANIA, a moral ethnological essay are bracketed here. These are his first works, later he turned to larger histories. Professor Mattingly has done a workman-like job, and this Penguin paperback was a standard text for roman historians. I am very surprised about t...