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Germania

by Cornelius Tacitus

First published
98
Pages
245
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Two short works by Rome's sharpest historian sit together here, both written around 98 AD. The Germania surveys the tribes living beyond the Rhine and the Danube: their laws, marriages, weapons, drinking, and their stubborn refusal to be governed. Tacitus reports what traders and soldiers told him, and he keeps holding Germanic plainness up as a mirror to Roman softness. The Agricola honors his father-in-law, who governed Britain and pushed Roman arms toward the Highlands, and it gives the Caledonian chief Calgacus the bitterest line in Latin literature: they make a desert and call it peace. Read together, the two are ethnography, biography, and a quiet argument about what empire costs. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Cornelius Tacitus

Tacitus wrote the history of the early Roman emperors as a man who had prospered under a bad one and never quite forgave himself for it.

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First published
98
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
245
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online