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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 ...
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]
In Britain, Gnaeus Julius Agricola expanded the Roman Empire as far as modern day Scotland, [47] but in Dacia, Domitian was unable to procure a decisive victory in the war against the Dacians. [48] On 18 September 96, Domitian was assassinated by court officials, and with him the Flavian dynasty came to an end.
It had been suggested that the historian's mother was a daughter of Aulus Caecina Paetus, suffect consul of 37, and sister of Arria, wife of Thrasea. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] His father may have been the Cornelius Tacitus who served as procurator of Belgica and Germania ; Pliny the Elder mentions that Cornelius had a son who aged rapidly ( NH 7.76 ...
Gnaeus Julius Agricola - general in Britain [69] [70] Sextus Calpurnius Agricola - governor in Britain [71] [72] Marcus Julius Agrippa (Agrippa I) - a king in Judea, romanized [73] Marcus Julius Agrippa (Agrippa II) - a king in Judea, romanized [74] Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa - general and geographer Portrait of Antoninus Pius
19th-century print depicting Calgacus delivering his speech to the Caledonians. According to Tacitus, Calgacus (sometimes Calgacos or Galgacus) was a chieftain of the Caledonian Confederacy who fought the Roman army of Gnaeus Julius Agricola at the Battle of Mons Graupius in northern Scotland in AD 83 or 84.
Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40–93), Roman governor of Britannia (AD 77–85) Sextus Calpurnius Agricola, Roman governor of the mid–2nd century AD; Agricola (consul 421) (365–?), Western Roman statesman; Agricola (vir inlustris) (fl. 466–485), son of the Western Roman Emperor Avitus; Saints Vitalis and Agricola (died 304), martyrs