121 IV Preface Tacitus' Germania has been, for decades, almost exclusively the province of German-sp. aking scholars. Their interest requires no explanation, since no other people has been able to evoke …

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"Germania" is an ethnographic work detailing the customs, geography, and tribes of Germania, focusing on cultural and societal structures rather than individual achievements. It includes general …

Germania fits squarely within the tradition established by authors from Herodotus to Julius Caesar. Tacitus himself had already written a similar essay on the lands and tribes of Britannia in his Agricola.

Germanien insgesamt ist von den Galliern, von den Rätern und Pannoniern durch Rhein und Donau, von den Sarmaten und Dakern durch wechselseitiges Mißtrauen oder Gebirgszüge geschieden.

eographical boundaries of the Germanic territory which his work will focus upon. The first sentence leaves the reader in no doubt of two things: that Germania is a space separate from Gaul, marked …

This edition of the Germania and Agricola of Tacitus is designed to meet the following wants, which, it is believed, have been generally felt by teachers and pupils in American Colleges.