Tacitus: Germania

by Benario, Herbert W.

• ISBN13: 9780856687174
• ISBN10: 0856687170
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

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. The popular facing page translation format is perfect for the student looking for accessibility in a text which for too long has been the preserve of German scholarship.

Table of Contents

Preface	iv
Introduction
Tacitus' Life and Work	1	(2)
The Germany	3	(1)
Rome's Relations with the Germans up to the Time of Tacitus	4	(2)
The Germany's Afterlife	6	(3)
Language and Style	9	(1)
Select Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms	10	(1)
Text and Translation	11	(1)
Map -- Germany in the Time of Tacitus	12	(105)
Text and Translation	13	(50)
Commentary	63	(50)
Appendixes
I The Roman Emperors and their Reigns	113	(1)
II The Disposition of the German Legions	114	(1)
III Coin Illustrations	115	(2)
Abbreviations and Bibliography	117	(4)
Index of Proper Latin Names	121