| Description |
1 online resource (xliv, 128 pages) |
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Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana |
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P. Cornelii Taciti libri qui supersunt ; t. 2, fasc. 2 |
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Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana.
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| Contents |
Front matter -- DE ORIGINE ET SITV GERMANORVM -- DE VITA IVLII AGRICOLAE -- DIALOGVS DE ORATORIBVS -- INDEX NOMINVM |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Agricola, Gnaeus Julius, 40-93.
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| SUBJECT |
Agricola, Gnaeus Julius, 40-93 fast |
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Civilization, Germanic.
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Rhetoric
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rhetoric (discipline)
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
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Civilization, Germanic
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Rhetoric
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Koestermann, Erich, 1901-
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| ISBN |
9783110958843 |
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3110958848 |
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