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:...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

first century CE. They are mentioned only by Cornelius Tacitus in 97 CE in Germania. Tacitus considered them similar to Suiones (ancestors of modern...

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,...

Hispania through Gaul. Tacitus records a special affinity of the Germanic peoples for Hercules. In chapter 3 of his Germania, Tacitus states: ... they say...

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...

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...

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...

into either Germania Inferior or Germania Superior in AD 85. In Tacitus, Germania Antiqua or Germania Barbara, are synonyms of Germania Transrhenana...

Tacitus in his 1st century AD work Germania, found on contemporary depictions of Germanic peoples, their art, and bog bodies. Roman historian Tacitus...

ISBN 978-0-19-049352-3. Tacitus, The Annals 1.58 Tac. Ann. 1.60.4, 2.25.2 Dio 60.8.7. Tac. Ann. 1.54–59. Tacitus, The Annals 2.88 Tacitus, Annals 2.22 ff.;...

Germania may also refer to: Germania (band), a project of the Slovenian group Laibach Germania (book), a historical and ethnographic work by Tacitus c...

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...

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,...

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...

the Roman period, Tacitus ascribed to the Germanic tribes the characteristics of virtus (manliness) and fortitudo (strength). Germania resurfaced during...

Angrivarian Wall Battle of the Angrivarian Wall Tacitus, Germania, 34. Tacitus, Annals, 2.19 Tacitus, Germania, 34. Strabo, Geography, 7.1; Ptolemy, Geography...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...