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The Agricola (Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, lit. On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book by the Roman historian Tacitus, written c 98, which recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general. It also covers, briefly, the geography and ethnography of ancient Britain. As in the Germania, Tacitus favorably contrasts the liberty of the native Britons to the corruption and tyranny of the Empire; the book also contains eloquent and vicious polemics against the rapacity and greed of Rome. This translation by Alfred John Church and ...

Wie war es damals im rauen Germanien - gesehen aus dem Blickwinkel eines Römers? Publius Cornelius Tacitus beschreibt dies in seinem Klassiker - und wir erfahren von so mancher überraschenden Charaktereigenschaft unserer Vorfahren!