Agricola, Germany, and Dialogue on Orators

In this volume, eminent scholar and translator Herbert W. Benario provides faithful, readable translations of three short works of Tacitus: Agricola —the fullest ancient account of Rome's conquest of Britain and of the public career of a senator in the service of a Roman emperor— Germany , a valuable source on the ancient land and its people, and Dialogue on Orators , an examination in the tradition of Cicero's rhetorical essays of the decline of oratory in Rome's early empire. Together, these w