In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two more manuscripts are said by Duane Reed Stuart to have been brought to light, with one being held by the Chapter Library of the Cathedral at Toledo in Spain and the other being found in 1902 in the private library of Count Balleani of Jesi, in Italy. In modern times, two manuscripts of the Agricola are preserved in the Library of the Vatican. It was eventually secured by the humanist Niccolò de' Niccoli. The text survived in a single codex ascertained by Poggio Bracciolini to be in a German monastery ( Hersfeld Abbey). It also covers the geography and ethnography of ancient Britain. 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. On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book by the Roman writer, Tacitus, written c. AD 98. The Agricola ( Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, lit. This novel approach to the text facilitates a deeper analysis of certain key passages of the text, and provides some much-needed nuance to the current scholarly debate.Book by Tacitus on the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola Based on the theory of conceptual metaphor promoted by George Lakoff, this article takes the metaphors of freedom and slavery that appear in the Agricola as starting point for a re-evaluation of the connection between the two narratives. Simultaneously, while it has often been remarked that Tacitus' language is inherently metaphorical, there have been curiously few studies devoted to Tacitean metaphor.

However, no agreement has been reached on the question of how exactly the two narratives 'affect' each other. This novel approach to the text facilitates a deeper analysis of certain key passages of the text, and provides some much-needed nuance to the current scholarly debate.ĪB - The Agricola has long been a popular object of study for the connection that it makes between the British narrative of resistance against Roman domination and the Roman narrative of resistance against imperial domination.

N2 - The Agricola has long been a popular object of study for the connection that it makes between the British narrative of resistance against Roman domination and the Roman narrative of resistance against imperial domination. T1 - The language of freedom and slavery in tacitus agricola

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