![]() ![]() Its reliable account of their ethnography, culture, institutions, and geography is the most thorough that has survived from ancient times, and to this day remains the preeminent classical text on the subject. The Germania has been the most influential source for the early Germanic peoples since the Renaissance. Agricola, the general primarily responsible for the Roman conquest of Britain and governor of Britannia from 77–85 AD, was Tacitus’ father-in-law. The Agricola, about Roman Britain, is roughly the same length. It was translated from the Latin by Alfred Church and William Brodribb in 1876 and published in The Complete Work of Tacitus by Random House’s Modern Library in 1942. ![]() ![]() The Germania is a short work, not really a “book.” My copy, “Germany and Its Tribes,” is a mere 23 pages long - albeit in moderately small wartime print on thin paper containing no notes, annotations, maps, illustrations, or other editorial aids. Tacitus, a senator, is believed to have held the offices of quaestor in 79, praetor in 88, consul in 97, and proconsul or governor of the Roman provinces in “Asia” (western Turkey), from 112–13. ![]()
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