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Sunday, 7 March 2021
Tacitus, Germania 24 -25: of games and slaves.
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Recently I bought a reprint of Jacob’s Grimm Deutsche Mythology (Teutonic Mythology, 4 th edition 1875), a pioneering work and a mileston...
Monday, 15 October 2018
Tacitus, Annales iv, 45: murder.
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Tacitus is an author still worth reading for his vividness of language and eye for details. In this chapter he describes the murder on L...
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Sunday, 24 May 2015
Tacitus, Germania, c. 2: where the Germanic tribes come from and how they got their name.
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Were it not for Tacitus, our knowledge of Germanic mythology would have been limited to most fairly late mediaeval sources, like the pr...
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Sunday, 25 January 2015
Tacitius, Germania 4 and 5: the simple-minded Germani.
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The Germania by Tacitus is one of the most studied and commented texts from the whole corpus of classical literature. The reason is th...
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