The Germania of Tacitus - with Ethnological Dissertations and Notes
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- The Germania of Tacitus - with Ethnological Dissertations and Notes
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- 1851
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The Germania of Tacitus - with Ethnological Dissertations and Notes
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Year: 1851
The Germania begins with a description of the lands, laws, and customs of the Germanic people (chapters 1–27); it then describes individual peoples, beginning with those dwelling closest to Roman lands and ending on the uttermost shores of the Baltic, among the amber-gathering Aesti, the Fenni, and the unknown peoples beyond them. Tacitus says (chapter 2) that physically, the Germanic peoples appear to be a distinct nation, not an admixture of their neighbors, since nobody would desire to migrate to a climate as horrid as that of Germania. They are divided into three large branches, the Ingaevones, the Irminones, and the Istaevones, deriving their ancestry from three sons of Mannus, son of Tuisto, their common forefather.
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