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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. With faithful and sincere character, bravery in war and longing for freedom – like this the Roman historian describes the people at the north. Meanwhile their weakness consist in indolence, liability to gambling and excessive consumption of alcohol. Somehow different from how today’s Germany is seen in the European Community. This is one of the few books I bought after reading the first line. "The whole of Germany is thus bounded; separated [...] from Sarmatia and Dacia by mutual fear, or by high mountains:" (it's even funnier in the German translation). At 2€ it was a no-brainer and I read a third of it on the train back home. For me it is really the equivalent of a first century Nat. Geographic article. Eloquently written and interesting. The Germanic society comes to life and Tacitus lets us take a peek into a world which is long gone. no reviews | add a review
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The Germania of Tacitus is the most extensive account of the ancient Germans written during the Roman period, but has been relatively neglected in the scholarship of the English-speaking world: the last commentary appeared in 1938, and only a handful of studies have appeared since that time.In recent decades, however, there have been important scholarly developments that significantly affect our understanding of it. Ongoing archaeological work in western and central Europe has greatly increased our knowledge of the iron-age cultures in those regions, while new anthropological andliterary approaches have called into question some of the traditional assumptions that shaped the use of this text as a historical source. This new commentary, together with the extensive introduction, provides a current and comprehensive guide to the relevant textual and archaeological evidenceand also examines the methodological issues involved in the interpretation of this important work. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)936.302History and Geography Ancient World Europe north and west of Italian Peninsula to ca. 499 Germanic Regions to 481LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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