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Tacitus on britain and germany6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Here, the text to 'Tribes of Ancient Britain' and 'A Treatise on the Situation, Manners and Inhabitants of Germany' has been edited and introduced by historian Bob Carruthers. ![]() As well as the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, he is known for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics. Tacitus on Britain and Germany This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as. In 112 or 113 he held the highest civilian governorship, that of the Roman province of Asia in Western Anatolia and wrote and published the Agricola and Germania and is considered one of the greatest Roman historians, living in what was called the Silver Age of Latin literature. Tacitus as a young man studied rhetoric in Rome to prepare for a career in law and politics. The works span the history from the death of Augustus in AD14 to the death of Emperor Domitian in AD96. ![]() The surviving portions of his two major works, the Annals and the Histories, examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors. elsewhere, Syme states, Germany or Britain, Tacitus shows little interest in. Publius Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (AD56-AD117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. Quid Tacitus with twenty-first century thinking about Anglo-Saxon England. ![]()
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