Tuesday, June 13, 2006
This Day in Ancient History
On this day in 40 AD, Gnaeus Julius Agricola is born in what is now Provence, France. He is best known for his military exploits in Britain where he was governor for a time, 77 to 84 AD. He dies, at age 53, (young) on August 23, 93 AD. It didn't hurt, as far as modern knowledge of the details of his life, that Rome's most famous historian, Tacitus, was his son-in-law.