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- Tacitus describes the Germani as an indigenous people. Operating an oral tradition through ancient songs, they celebrated the earth-born god Tuisco, and his son Mannus: the originator and founder of their race.
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Oct 16, 2021 · Tacitus hailed German women as great mothers who suckled and raised their young personally, not passing them to wetnurses and slaves. Tacitus makes a marked point of noting that childrearing was a cause for praise in tribal society and allowed for large families that would support each other.
chapter: Germany is separated from the Galli, the Rhæti, and Pannonii, by the rivers Rhine and Danube; mountain ranges, or the fear which each feels for the other, divide it from the Sarmatæ and Daci. Elsewhere ocean girds it, embracing broad peninsulas and islands of unexplored extent, where certain tribes and kingdoms are newly known to us ...
Tacitus says (chapter 18) that the Germanic peoples are mainly content with one wife, except for a few political marriages, and specifically and explicitly compares this practice favorably to other cultures.
They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes, was formerly discovered on this same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs, with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhætia.
Tacitus famously refutes military success in his account. As this article shows, however, its memory is consistently invoked in its basic structure. Especially through allusions to Caesar, Taci-tus introduces a model of historiographical narrative concerning Roman conquest, only to reject it.
Apr 10, 2024 · What is Tacitus famous for? When was Tacitus born? When did Tacitus write Germania? Tacitus (born ad 56—died c. 120) was a Roman orator and public official, probably the greatest historian and one of the greatest prose stylists who wrote in the Latin language.
THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION OF TACITUS' GERMANIA. MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM. FORTY years ago the American scholar Rodney P. Robinson published the results of his long investigations into the manuscript tradition of Tacitus' Ger- mania.1 His conclusions, and particularly the critical edition he based on them, won little commendation. R.
