Korean translation in September 2012 and Italian translation in December 2012. Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania over a five-hundred-year span, showing us how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. The Germania, written by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus around 98 CE and originally entitled On the Origin and Situation of the Germanic Peoples ( Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum ), was a historical and ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire. But the Germania inspired-and polarized-readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola-the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus well-loved and respected father-in-law-and the. Updated to include the findings of archaeologicalinvestigation over the. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as 'a bible,' nor that Heinrich Himmler, the engineer of the Holocaust, would vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. A historical-archaeological and linguistic commentary of TacitussGermania. The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.

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