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Gnaeus Julius Agricola (/ ə ˈ ɡ r ɪ k ə l ə /; 13 June 40 – 23 August 93) was a Roman general and politician responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain. Born to a political family of senatorial rank, Agricola began his military career as a military tribune under governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus .
In 62 she married the Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who had just recently returned from service in Britain as a military tribune. She gave birth to a son, whose name is not known, in 63, and in 64 to a daughter, Julia Agricola. Not long after Julia's birth, the son died. Julia married the historian Tacitus in 78. Agricola and Domitia ...
His familial relations are unclear: the names of Agricola's parents are unknown, as is the name of his wife, and the names of his children. He may have had a son named Nymphidius. He was the grandfather of Magnus, consul in 460. He was also a relative, perhaps even the father, of the emperor Avitus (r. 455–456). [2]
Domitia Longina (c. 54–128), wife of Roman Emperor Domitian; Domitia Decidiana (1st century), wife of Roman General Gnaeus Julius Agricola and mother-in-law to historian Tacitus; Domitia Calvilla or Domitia Lucilla Minor (died c. 158), mother of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius; Domitia Paulina (died c. 85), mother of Roman Emperor Hadrian
Tremissis of Emperor Avitus. Avitus was born in Clermont to a family of the Gallo-Roman nobility.His father was possibly Agricola, consul in 421. Avitus had two sons, Agricola (fl 455 – living 507, a vir illustris) and Ecdicius Avitus (later patricius and magister militum under Emperor Julius Nepos) and a daughter Papianilla; she married Sidonius Apollinaris, whose letters and panegyrics ...
Agricola's campaigns. The new governor was Agricola, returning to Britain, and made famous through the highly laudatory biography of him written by his son-in-law, Tacitus. Arriving in mid-78, Agricola completed the conquest of Wales in defeating the Ordovices [42] who had destroyed a cavalry ala of Roman auxiliaries stationed in their ...
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The Agricola (Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, lit.On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book by the Roman writer, Tacitus, written c. AD 98. 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. [1]