The Loeb Classical Library: Agricola. Germania. Dialogus

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The Loeb Classical Library: Agricola. Germania. DialogusTacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor Domitians last years and turned to historical writing. He was a consul in 97. Close friend of the younger Pliny,

debate with her husband on issues of beauty and truth

Greek text with translion

Ζω σε έναν άλλο κόσμο

This volume presents the Greek text of five of these speeches with full introduction and detailed commentary

The leader of a literary circle and friend of Herodotus

and situates Ovid's composite poem in its Augustan literary and historical context

characterisation

a neglected house is a sign of a neglected soul

Cicero pleads for the rule of law as a vital counterweight to the anarchy that the gangs of Clodius

Demades of Athens (ca

The emperors are brought to life by their biographers and correspondents Suetonius

As Aeneas journeys closer to his goal