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Tacitus' Germania
Kort før år 100 e.Kr. gjorde den romerske senatoren og litteraten Gaius Cornelius Tacitus ferdig et lite skrift, som tross det uanselige utgangspunktet har hatt sosiale og …
Romersk retorikk
Cicero, Quintilian og Tacticus, tre av dei fremste retorikarane frå det gamle Roma, drøftar her spørsmål om språkleg påverknad og tek opp filosofiske problemstillingar.
Agricola and Germania
The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account …
The Annals of Imperial Rome
His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman …
The Annals
'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden... In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike' Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and …
Agricola and Germany
`Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical …
Agricola. Germania. Dialogue on Oratory
The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in …
The Histories
`The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace.' Edward Gibbon called The Histories an …