Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : la
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Agricola and Germania of Cornelius Tacitus
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : la
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : la
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Agricola and the Germania (100 Copy Collector's Edition)
Author: Tacitus
Publisher: Royal Classics
ISBN: 9781772269963
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Agricola and the Germania were written by the Roman historian Tacitus around 98 AD. The Germania describes the lands, laws, and customs of individual Germanic tribes. The Agricola, recounts the life of Tacitus' father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general and Governor of Britain. It also covers, briefly, 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; the book also contains eloquent and forceful polemics against the rapacity and greed of Rome. Tacitus's writings are known for their dense prose that seldom glosses the facts, in contrast to the style of some of his contemporaries. In most of his writings he keeps to a chronological narrative order, only seldom outlining the bigger picture, leaving the readers to construct that picture for themselves. Tacitus's historical style offers penetrating--often pessimistic--insights into the psychology of power politics, blending straightforward descriptions of events, moral lessons, and tightly focused dramatic accounts. This cloth-bound book includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket, and is limited to 100 copies.
Publisher: Royal Classics
ISBN: 9781772269963
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Agricola and the Germania were written by the Roman historian Tacitus around 98 AD. The Germania describes the lands, laws, and customs of individual Germanic tribes. The Agricola, recounts the life of Tacitus' father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general and Governor of Britain. It also covers, briefly, 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; the book also contains eloquent and forceful polemics against the rapacity and greed of Rome. Tacitus's writings are known for their dense prose that seldom glosses the facts, in contrast to the style of some of his contemporaries. In most of his writings he keeps to a chronological narrative order, only seldom outlining the bigger picture, leaving the readers to construct that picture for themselves. Tacitus's historical style offers penetrating--often pessimistic--insights into the psychology of power politics, blending straightforward descriptions of events, moral lessons, and tightly focused dramatic accounts. This cloth-bound book includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket, and is limited to 100 copies.
The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus" by Cornelius Tacitus. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus" by Cornelius Tacitus. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Life of Agricola and Germany
Author: Tacitus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Germany and Agricola
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher:
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Category : Germanic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germanic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Agricola, Germany, and Dialogue on Orators
Author: Tacitus
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624662048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In this volume, eminent scholar and translator Herbert W. Benario provides faithful, readable translations of three short works of Tacitus: Agricola—the fullest ancient account of Rome's conquest of Britain and of the public career of a senator in the service of a Roman emperor—Germany, a valuable source on the ancient land and its people, and Dialogue on Orators, an examination in the tradition of Cicero's rhetorical essays of the decline of oratory in Rome's early empire. Together, these works illuminate an important phase in Tacitus' development as Rome's foremost historian. Introductory essays, chapter summaries, notes, a bibliography, maps, and an index are included.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624662048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In this volume, eminent scholar and translator Herbert W. Benario provides faithful, readable translations of three short works of Tacitus: Agricola—the fullest ancient account of Rome's conquest of Britain and of the public career of a senator in the service of a Roman emperor—Germany, a valuable source on the ancient land and its people, and Dialogue on Orators, an examination in the tradition of Cicero's rhetorical essays of the decline of oratory in Rome's early empire. Together, these works illuminate an important phase in Tacitus' development as Rome's foremost historian. Introductory essays, chapter summaries, notes, a bibliography, maps, and an index are included.
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germanic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germanic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Agricola and Germany
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019953926X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
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 Rome and the northern `barbarians' and the edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019953926X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
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 Rome and the northern `barbarians' and the edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history.
De Natura Fossilium (Textbook of Mineralogy)
Author: Georgius Agricola
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486158551
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This 1546 publication remains a landmark in geology, with unprecedented classifications by physical property and locality, simple standardized naming system, summaries of earlier studies, and employment of observation and personal experience.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486158551
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This 1546 publication remains a landmark in geology, with unprecedented classifications by physical property and locality, simple standardized naming system, summaries of earlier studies, and employment of observation and personal experience.