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Attraverso l'Agricola, scritto nei primi anni dell'impero di Traiano (98 d.C.), Tacito intende proporre la figura del suocero, valoroso generale a cui si deve la definitiva sottomissione della Britannia, quale esempio e modello etico per la nuova classe dirigente dell'impero. Ma l'autore latino non si limita a tracciare una biografia secondo gli schemi convenzionali: la vicenda umana e politica di Agricola si intreccia con l'ampio excursus etnoantropologico della Britannia, in cui sono illustrati i costumi delle varie popolazioni dell'isola; non mancano anche riflessioni di penetrante attualità sull'imperialismo romano, di cui si mette in luce, nel celebre discorso del comandante britanno Calgaco, la natura violenta e criminale.
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- Pagine: 272
- Data di uscita: 31-12-2017
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Tacitus, the greatest roman historian, wrote about Agricola, his relative, a Roman general who handled Britain's invasion. Agricola finished the job actually becouse he reached and conquered Caledonia (what we call Scotland nowadays). I am particularly interested in that part of Scotland becouse bot Leggi tutto
Read for a university tutorial. I found this to be an interesting Roman text, as Tacitus combines an ethnography of ancient Britons with a fawning biography of his father in law, Agricola. He does this by using allegorical characters to represent the split between Vespasian, Domitian and Nerva, and
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Una muy buena obra (para el estudio) por distintos motivos: se trata de una eulogía de un familiar perjudicado por la autoridad imperial escrita por uno de los principales exponentes de este, por así describirlo, romanticismo neocatoniano influido por el estoicismo al que pertenecen, en mi opinión, Leggi tutto
Pretty interesting but not as good as Germania. Or at least less interesting to me because much less of it is concerned with giving an ethnographic account of the British Celts than the other text is concerned with the Germanic tribes. Like the other text, I get the impression that this has Tacitus
Maybe one of the best eulogies ever written. Focused on the Roman wars in 1st century Britain with insightful descriptions of the early Britains customs. It finishes on a very emotional note, describing the soul as "eternal" and memories best expressed not through an artistic rendition but by "indiv Leggi tutto
Klein boekje met een volledige vertaling van Tacitus' Agricola door Vincent Hunink. Erg leuk.
This edition dates from 2014 and updates earlier editions of this short work by the great Roman historian, Cornelius Tacitus. I should say that the text itself is quite short at 24 pages but AJ Woodman, the editor, gives us a 37-page introduction and a commentary that runs to about 270 pages plus a
This is of course primarily about the exploits of Cneus Julius Agricola and secondly about Britain and The Britons. Boudicca is also briefly touched on. I’ll now list 10 quotes from Tacitus’s observations about Britain: 1. “Britain, the largest of the islands which Roman geography includes” (Ch. 9) 2. Leggi tutto
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