Tacitus, Thule and Caledonia
Subtitle: the achievements of Agricola's navy in their true perspective
By: Stan Wolfson.
Series: BAR British series -- 459
Publisher: Archaeopress; Available from Hadrian Books [distributor]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781407302744
Subjects: Tacitus, Cornelius; Agricola, Gnaeus Julius, -- 40-93; Rome -- History, Naval; Shetland (Scotland) -- History -- Sources; Scotland -- History -- To 1057 -- Sources
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-118).
Table of contents: title: Shetland : the classical geographical context; title: The manuscripts of Tacitus' Agricola; title: Reassessment of vocabulary and sense; title: The search for a harbour; title: Thule in contemporary Latin poetry; title: The Boresti : the creation of a myth; title: A problem of identification, or, Pie in the Skye; title: The coinage of Titus and Agricola's Caledonian campaign of AD 79; title: Vettius Bolanus in the north : fact or fiction?; title: Caledonius : allusion and illusion.