Germania
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- First published
- 98
- Pages
- 245
About this book
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.
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Book facts
- Author
- Cornelius Tacitus
- First published
- 98
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 245
- Language
- English
- Genre
- European History
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online