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Loading... The Agricola and The Germania936--History of the ancient world; Europe north & west of Italy: The Agricola and the Germania
120/1000; 57/100 29. The Agricola and the Germania. Where else would I have learned that, in the 1st century, only wealthy Germans wore underwear? ... time I read it, and so decided to get this one.
After listening to a series of radio talks on Tacitus, I put his Agricola on the TBR pile as a re-read, so it's still unchanged at 62. ... to keep me from being distracted by something else. I definitely want to start over and finish it this time.
Zoe, the Agricola and Germania are short. I have the Penguin Classics version (I think), and it's a slim volume. I saw Stonehenge, Woodhenge, and Avebury last March, so I think ... Seahenge looks really interesting--probably more so than my TBR for that category, The Agricola and the Germania! I might have to switch that.
I started the Histories several years ago and got bogged down about a third of the way through, so we'll see how it goes the second time around. ... ton
930--History of the ancient world: The Histories
936--History of the ancient world; Europe north & west of Italy: The Agricola and the Germania
951--General history of Asia; China & adjacent areas: Tibet, Tibet
972--General history of North America; Middle America; Mexico: Where ... ... of ancient world; Egypt: Unwrapping a Mummy
936--History of the ancient world; Europe north & west of Italy: The Agricola and the Germania
940--General history of Europe: Denying the Holocaust
941--General history of Europe; British Isles: Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed
... First bunch of textbooks:
Orientalism, by Edward W. Said
The Agricola and the Germania, by Tacitus
The Annals of Imperial Rome, by Tacitus
Fences, by August Wilson
1918, by Horton Foote
Valentine's Day, by Horton Foote
The Origins of Totalitarianism, by ... I only took Latin up to 'A' level, but our prose set book for that was Tacitus' Agricola, and if IIRC, Horace's Carmina for the verse set book.
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