Tacitus

You will read Tacitus' description of the Germanic tribes to his contemporaries on the next page. 

Publius (Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (56-120 CE) was a senator and historian of the Roman Empire. His two main areas of writing include the history of the Roman Empire (especially the reigns of the emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero) and rhetoric (Dialogus de oratoribus). You are reading excerpts from his De origine et situ Germanorum. 

Your task: 

• Read the text
• Create 3 original annotations commenting on Tacitus's description of the Germanic people. What is noteworthy, confusing, fascinating... Why? What seems completely inaccurate in his description or even wrong? 
• Respond to at least one of your fellow students' annotations with follow-up questions or discussion points.

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