What can we learn from Tacitus’s account about the economy, politics, society, and culture of the Germanic peoples of the first century C.E.?
As the Roman Empire expanded, they came into contact with various peoples. None of them was to have a more significant or enduring influence on the shaping of Western civilization than the Germans, whose chieftains eventually would supplant Roman authority in Western Europe. That at least some Romans had an inkling of the Germans’ later […]