When Did Tacitus Write Agricola
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...
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. AD 98. The work recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general and Governor of Britain from AD 77/78 – 83/84.
When were the annals written?
Tacitus was a Roman senator, who wrote the Annals in the early second century AD, during the reigns of Trajan (AD 98-117) and Hadrian (AD 117-138).
What relation was Agricola to Tacitus?
The Agricola (written c. 98) recounts the life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general and Tacitus’ father-in-law; it also covers, briefly, the geography and ethnography of ancient Britain.