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Tacitus Germany
Publius Cornelius Tacitus - The Germania - in a new freely downloadable translation
- The Agricola
There, a daughter (Julia, later wife to Tacitus) was born to...
- Tacitus
Tacitus: The Agricola and Germania: new, complete...
- The Agricola
Jun 19, 2009 · The Germania (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum, literally The Origin and Situation of the Germans[1]), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus around 98, is an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire.
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Sep 9, 2015 · Tacitus: The Agricola and Germania: new, complete downloadable English translations of Tacitus' Agricola and Germania.
Tacitus’ Germania is by far the fullest and most valuable treatise of its kind which has come down to us from ancient to modern times; and was with reason called by scholars of the Renaissance libellus aureus “a booklet of gold.”
Tacitus goes on to give a geographical account of the locations of the main German tribes. The following, which completes the text of the Germania, is from an 18th-century different translation by Thomas Gordon.
The Germania, written by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus around 98 AD and originally entitled On the Origin and Situation of the Germans (Latin: De origine et situ Germanorum), is a historical and ethnographic work on the Germanic peoples outside the Roman Empire.
In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania over a five-hundred-year span, showing us how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world.
