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Tacitus in his Agricola wrote that the various groupings of Britons shared physical characteristics with their continental neighbours: the Britons of England were more typically blonde-haired, like the Gauls, in contrast to the Britons of Wales, who were generally dark and curly of hair, like the Spanish, or those of Scotland, stereotypically redheaded.
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According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.
Tacitus, the most important Roman historian of this period, took a particular interest in Britain as Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law and the subject of his first book, served there three times.
Agricola was a military tribune under Suetonius Paulinus, which almost certainly gave Tacitus an eyewitness source for Boudica's revolt.
Tacitus derided Domitian's victory against the Chatti as a " mock triumph ", and criticised his decision to retreat from Britain following the conquests of Agricola.
One of the most detailed reports of military activity under the Flavian dynasty was written by Tacitus, whose biography of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola largely concerns the conquest of Britain between 77 and 84.
Although Tacitus is usually considered to be the most reliable author of this era, his views on Domitian are complicated by the fact that his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, may have been a personal enemy of the Emperor.
In his biographical work Agricola, Tacitus maintains that Agricola was forced into retirement because his triumph over the Caledonians highlighted Domitian's own inadequacy as a military commander.
Several modern authors such as Dorey have argued the opposite: that Agricola was in fact a close friend of Domitian, and that Tacitus merely sought to distance his family from the fallen dynasty once Nerva was in power.
Governor Gnaeus Julius Agricola, father-in-law to the historian Tacitus, conquered the Ordovices in 78.
In his book Agricola the Roman historian Tacitus includes eloquent and vicious polemics against the rapacity and greed of Rome.
From Tacitus ( Agricola 1. 35-36 ) " The plain between resounded with the noise and with the rapid movements of chariots and cavalry.
* Julia Agricola, daughter of general Gnaeus Julius Agricola and wife to historian Tacitus
* Tacitus, Agricola 5, 14-16 ; Annals 14. 29-39, 16: 14 ; Histories 1: 87, 90, 2: 23-26, 31-41, 44, 60
Agricola was the father-in-law of the famous historian Tacitus.
In any case, the Roman historian Tacitus, in his book Agricola ( c. 98 AD ), uses the name Hibernia.
The Roman historian Tacitus makes reference to an expedition to Ireland by the general Agricola in AD 82.
The Roman historian Tacitus mentions that Agricola, while governor of Roman Britain ( AD 78-84 ), entertained an exiled Irish prince ( may be Túathal ), thinking to use him as a pretext for a possible conquest of Ireland.
Tacitus, in Chapter 24 of Agricola, does not tell us what body of water he crossed, although many scholars believe it was the Clyde or Forth ; however, the rest of the chapter exclusively concerns Ireland.
Agricola fortified the coast facing Ireland, and Tacitus recalls that his father-in-law often claimed the island could be conquered with a single legion and auxiliaries.
Tacitus, the Roman author, tells us that around this time Agricola had with him an Irish chieftain who later returned to conquer Ireland with an army.
* Julia Agricola ( born 64 ), wife of Tacitus
* Agricola ( book ), a biography of Julius Agricola by Tacitus
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Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.
At Rome, he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire from the accession of Nerva ( 96 ) to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ), in effect writing a continuation of the history of Tacitus.
The main ancient historians Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio all wrote after the last of the Flavians had gone.
Tacitus wrote a narrative for his fellow senators and fitted each of the Emperors into a simple mold of his choosing.
Tacitus wrote this of the Julio-Claudian Emperors and history:
Tacitus wrote that many officers were sacrificed by the Germanic forces as part of their indigenous religious ceremonies, cooked in pots and their bones used for rituals.
Tacitus describes her as the " wife of the Plautius who returned from Britain with an ovation ", which led John Lingard ( 1771 – 1851 ) to conclude, in his History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, that she was British ; however, this conclusion is a misinterpretation of what Tacitus wrote.
In 59 they had reluctantly agreed to Agrippina's murder, and afterward, we are told by Tacitus that Seneca wrote a dishonest exculpation of Nero to the Senate.
Posidonius wrote a geographic treatise on the lands of the Celts which has since been lost, but which is referred to extensively ( both directly and otherwise ) in the works of Diodorus of Sicily, Strabo, Caesar and Tacitus ' Germania.
The Roman Tacitus wrote of the Silures: non atrocitate, non clementia mutabatur – the tribe " was changed neither by cruelty nor by clemency ".
As early as the 1st century, Tacitus wrote that the Suiones had a king, but the order of succession to the later historic kings of Sweden, before King Eric the Victorious ( died 995 ), is only known by what is accounted for in the historically controversial Norse sagas ( see Mythical kings of Sweden and Semi-legendary kings of Sweden ).
J. David Cassel gives several examples: Tacitus wrote that Nero fabricated charges that Christians started the burning of Rome.
Tacitus wrote in AD 98:
" And Tacitus wrote that " Jerusalem is the capital of the Jews.
Manetho, an Egyptian priest and historian of that time, wrote scathingly of the Jews and his themes are repeated in the works of Chaeremon, Lysimachus, Poseidonius, Apollonius Molon, and in Apion and Tacitus.
From an ethnic point of view, Roman authors associated blond and reddish hair with the Gauls and the Germans: e. g., Virgil describes the hair of the Gauls as " golden " ( aurea caesaries ), Tacitus wrote that " the Germans have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames "; in accordance with Ammianus, almost all the Gauls were " of tall stature, fair and ruddy ".
She was evidently long since deceased by the time Tacitus wrote his Germania in AD 98.
Tacitus wrote that they assisted the rebel Tacfarinas and raided Roman coastal settlements.
Tacitus, who wrote of the battle more than fifty years later, claims to relate Boudica's speech to her followers: " But now ," she said, " it is not as a woman descended from noble ancestry, but as one of the people that I am avenging lost freedom, my scourged body, the outraged chastity of my daughters.
Tacitus also wrote of Suetonius addressing his legionaries: " Ignore the racket made by these savages.
Tacitus wrote a speech which he attributed to Calgacus, saying that Calgacus gave it in advance of the Battle of Mons Graupius.
He wrote Latin Literature of the Empire ( 2 vols., Prose and Poetry, 1898 – 1899 ), a History of Classical Philology ( 1902 ) and Sources of Plutarchs Life of Cicero ( 1902 ); and edited Tacitus Dialogus de oratoribus ( text with commentary, 1894 and 1898 ) and Agricola ( 1899 ; with Germania, 1900 ), and Sallusts Catiline ( 1903 ).
* Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, who wrote a lost historical work entitled Annals, probably a continuation of Tacitus ' work.
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