Agricola vs Diary: Which Should You Read?

Agricola P. Cornelius Tacitus · 1585 ★★★★☆ 3.7 161 pages · ≈ 2 h 59 m · Demanding

"Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last major writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98. He was inspired to take up his pen when the assassination of Domitian ended…

Diary Samuel Pepys · 1825 ★★★★☆ 4.2 16 pages · ≈ 18 min · Challenging

“Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold.”

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament. The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 is one of the most important primary…