Germania : Agricola ; Dialogus de oratoribus / tertium edidit Erich Koestermann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tacitus, Cornelius.

Contributor:

Koestermann, Erich, 1901-

Series:

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

P. Cornelii Taciti libri qui supersunt ; tom. 2, fasc. 2

Standardized Title:

Works. Latin. Koestermann. Selections. 1970

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Germanic.

Rhetoric.

Agricola, Gnaeus Julius, 40-93.

Agricola, Gnaeus Julius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

3. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Leipzig : BSB B.G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, 1970.

Language Note:

Latin

Summary:

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

Contents:

Front matter

DE ORIGINE ET SITV GERMANORVM

DE VITA IVLII AGRICOLAE

DIALOGVS DE ORATORIBVS

INDEX NOMINVM

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Agricola.

Dialogus de oratoribus.

ISBN:

9783110958843

3110958848

OCLC:

850189815