This volume pairs two of Tacitus’s most celebrated short works: the Agricola, a laudatory biography of Gnaeus Julius Agricola — Tacitus’s own father-in-law and the Roman general who governed Britain — and the Germania, an ethnographic study of the Germanic tribes living beyond Rome’s northern frontier. Together they represent the Roman historian’s gift for political biography and sharp observation of foreign peoples.
Written around 98 AD, both texts are invaluable primary sources for Roman history and early European ethnography. This free EPUB download makes these foundational classical works accessible on any modern device.