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Cover art: The cover shows a detail from a relief on a gravestone, in the National Museum, Rome.”
Blurb: “TACITUS - THE AGRICOLA AND THE GERMANIA
TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
H. MATTINGLY, TRANSLATION REVISED BY
S. A. HANDFORD - Tacitus' unique style, lively imagination and quick wit, make him one of the great classical historians.
The portrait of Tacitus' father-in-law, Agricola, is a eulogistic description of the career of the famous governor of Roman Britain, and it contains the first detailed account of the British Isles. In the Germania Tacitus examines the life and customs of the war-like German tribes, often comparing them tavourably with the decadence of Imperial Rome. Hailed as a golden book', the Germania is certainly the best of its kind in antiquity.
This volume contains Harold Mattingly's widely respected introduction and translation of perhaps the greatest stylist of the Roman Empire.”