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