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In the Germania Tacitus provides the most-detailed extant account of the German peoples in Antiquity. This edition is one of two which claim to be the first in English for over sixty years. It contains both text and translation and a brief commentary, with an appendix of illustrations of Domitianic coins.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Tacitus' life and work
  • 2. The Germany
  • 3. Rome's relations with Germans up to the time of Tacitus
  • 4. The Germany's afterlife
  • 5. Language and style
  • 6. Select grammatical and rhetorical terms
  • 7. Text and translation
  • 8. Map - Germany in the time of Tacitus
  • Text and translation
  • Commentary
  • Appendixes
  • I: The Roman emperors and their reigns
  • II: The disposition of the German Legions
  • III: Coin illustrations
  • Abbreviations and bibliography
  • Index of proper Latin names.

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: 7/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780856687174, 978-0856687174
      ISBN10: 0856687170
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the Germania Tacitus provides the most-detailed extant account of the German peoples in Antiquity. This edition is one of two which claim to be the first in English for over sixty years. It contains both text and translation and a brief commentary, with an appendix of illustrations of Domitianic coins.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Introduction
      • 1. Tacitus' life and work
      • 2. The Germany
      • 3. Rome's relations with Germans up to the time of Tacitus
      • 4. The Germany's afterlife
      • 5. Language and style
      • 6. Select grammatical and rhetorical terms
      • 7. Text and translation
      • 8. Map - Germany in the time of Tacitus
      • Text and translation
      • Commentary
      • Appendixes
      • I: The Roman emperors and their reigns
      • II: The disposition of the German Legions
      • III: Coin illustrations
      • Abbreviations and bibliography
      • Index of proper Latin names.

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