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Tacitus, Thule and Caledonia : the achievements of Agricola's navy in their true perspective / Stan Wolfson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfson, Stan
- Series:
- BAR British series ; 459.
- BAR British series ; 459
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tacitus, Cornelius. Agricola.
- Agricola, Gnaeus Julius, 40-93.
- Rome--Classis--History.
- Agricola (Tacitus, Cornelius).
- Rome--History, Naval.
- Shetland (Scotland)--History--Sources.
- Scotland--History--To 1057--Sources.
- Rome (Empire).
- Scotland.
- Scotland--Shetland.
- Local Subjects:
- Rome--Classis--History.
- Genre:
- History
- Naval history
- Sources
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (118 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Archaeopress : Available from Hadrian Books [distributor], 2008.
- System Details:
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
- Contents:
- Shetland : the classical geographical context
- The manuscripts of Tacitus' Agricola
- Reassessment of vocabulary and sense
- The search for a harbour
- Thule in contemporary Latin poetry
- The Boresti : the creation of a myth
- A problem of identification, or, Pie in the Skye
- The coinage of Titus and Agricola's Caledonian campaign of AD 79
- Vettius Bolanus in the north : fact or fiction?
- Caledonius : allusion and illusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-118).
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2023.
- Print version record
- ISBN:
- 9781407321189
- 1407321188
- OCLC:
- 1415943064
- Publisher Number:
- B459 BAR Publishing
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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