The
Agricola (, lit.
On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book by the
Roman historian
Tacitus, written , which recounts the life of his father-in-law
Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general. It also covers, briefly, the geography and ethnography of
ancient Britain. As in the
Germania, Tacitus favorably contrasts the liberty of the native Britons to the corruption and tyranny of the Empire; the book also contains eloquent and vicious polemics against the rapacity and greed of Rome.