Tacitus, Cornelius. The Agricola: and The Germania. United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 1971.
I read the Penguin Classic edition with the Agricola and the Germania.
This version is a revision of a previous translation. So H. Mattingly translated the texts in 1948 and S.A. Hanford published the revision in 1970, and wrote an introduction.
This was a funeral oration for his father in law, the governor of Roman Britain. It reflects cultural ideals of the first century AD, and describes what it meant to be virtuous.
Role of funerals in society at the time.
Roman funeral masks.
Germania was a social study of the way of life of a freedom loving people, as a warning that they may attempt to live free from Roman empirium.
