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    The Germania, written by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus around 98 AD and originally titled On the Origin and Situation of the Germans (Latin:...
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    Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (/ˈtæsɪtəs/ TAS-it-əs, Latin: [ˈtakɪtʊs]; c. AD 56 – c. 120), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely...
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    the origin of the names Germania and Germani is the book Germania (98 AD) by Tacitus. Tacitus writes that the name Germania was "modern and newly introduced"...
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    Nerthus (section Germania)
    first century A.D. Roman historian Tacitus in his ethnographic work Germania as a "Mother Earth". In Germania, Tacitus records that a group of Germanic...
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  • Harii (section Germania)
    winter night sky sometimes led by Odin. Regarding the Harii, Tacitus writes in Germania: As for the Harii, quite apart from their strength, which exceeds...
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  • historian Tacitus's first century CE book Germania, Tacitus describes the veneration of what he deems as an "Isis" of the Suebi. Due to Tacitus's usage of...
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    first century CE. They are mentioned only by Cornelius Tacitus in 97 CE in Germania. Tacitus considered them similar to Suiones (ancestors of modern...
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    Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (category Germania)
    Tacitus, Annals, I.56 Tacitus, Annals, I.57 Smith 1867, p. 259 Wells 2003, pp. 204–205 Tacitus, I.63 Wells 2003, p. 206; Smith 1867, p. 259 Tacitus,...
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    Hispania through Gaul. Tacitus records a special affinity of the Germanic peoples for Hercules. In chapter 3 of his Germania, Tacitus states: ... they say...
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    Herminones, Tacitus treats them as a separate group. Additionally, Tacitus's description of a group of tribes as united by the cult of Nerthus (Germania 40) as...
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  • to help emperor Tiberius's war against the Vindelicia. The Annales of Tacitus state that they received standards from Tiberius, but when that was is...
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    into either Germania Inferior or Germania Superior in AD 85. In Tacitus, Germania Antiqua or Germania Barbara, are synonyms of Germania Transrhenana...
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    Tacitus in his 1st century AD work Germania, found on contemporary depictions of Germanic peoples, their art, and bog bodies. Roman historian Tacitus...
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  • Germania may also refer to: Germania (band), a project of the Slovenian group Laibach Germania (book), a historical and ethnographic work by Tacitus c...
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  • Res publica (section Tacitus)
    quotes above (like so many passages in Tacitus' writings) are a translator's minefield: In the first quote above Tacitus qualifies the res publica he intends...
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    Upper Germania. Apparently it had become a province in the last years of the Roman Republic. Tacitus also mentions it as the province of Germania Superior...
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    2019. Tacitus, The Annals 1.55 Tacitus, The Annals 1.57 "Thusnelda, Wife of Hermann". www.germanamericanpioneers.org. Retrieved 1 June 2019. Tacitus, The...
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  • Tacitus mentions the Naharvali as the keepers of the sanctuary of the Lugii, a grove dedicated to the twin gods Alcis. The text of Tacitus (Germania,...
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    Germania. It is not possible to decide based on Tacitus's report whether the myth was meant to describe an origin of the gods or of humans. Tacitus also...
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    Tungri (category Germania Inferior)
    to this way, including those in Germania east of the river Rhine, were named after them. More specifically, Tacitus was thereby equating the Tungri with...
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    Angrivarii (category Germania)
    Angrivarian Wall Battle of the Angrivarian Wall Tacitus, Germania, 34. Tacitus, Annals, 2.19 Tacitus, Germania, 34. Strabo, Geography, 7.1; Ptolemy, Geography...
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    Aesti (section Tacitus)
    people first described by the Roman historian Tacitus in his treatise Germania (circa 98 AD). According to Tacitus, the territory of Aesti was located somewhere...
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    the Roman period, Tacitus ascribed to the Germanic tribes the characteristics of virtus (manliness) and fortitudo (strength). Germania resurfaced during...
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  • Roman historian Tacitus. In his treatise Germania (98.AD), the comitatus is a retinue of warriors who follow a lord (princeps). Tacitus used the terms...
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  • Skaði in the Poetic Edda poem Skírnismál. In his first-century work Germania, Tacitus describes rituals surrounding a deity by the name of Nerthus, a theonym...
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    "Isis" of the Suebi remains a topic of debate among scholars. Later in Germania, Tacitus also mentions a deity referred to as regnator omnium deus venerated...
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    composer Nicola Porpora in his opera Germanico in Germania. Fflur 219 Thusnelda Tacitus, The Annals 1.55 Tacitus, The Annals 1.57 "Thusnelda, Wife of Hermann"...
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    According to Tacitus's Germania (AD 98), Tuisto (or Tuisco) is the legendary divine ancestor of the Germanic peoples. The figure remains the subject of...
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    first described by Cornelius Tacitus in Germania in AD 98. The Fenni are first mentioned by Cornelius Tacitus in Germania in 98 A.D. Their location is...
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  • nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted. — Tacitus, Germania (c. 98 AD) The 12th-century Andalusian allegorical novel Hayy ibn...
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