Germania

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Abstract This chapter explores the Germania as a text which, far from being an outlier generically as well as geographically, is firmly embedded in the ethnographic tradition. While attempts to contextualize the Germania have traditionally focused on antecedents within Latin literature, such as Caesar and Pliny the Elder, this chapter argues for a rich and illuminating context for Germania within the Greek tradition concerning northern Europe, stemming from and including notable figures such as Herodotus and Posidonius. Both general and specific correspondences are seen to support the affiliation of Tacitus’ work with this Greek tradition, in spite of the Germania’s opening allusion to Caesar’s De Bello Gallico. Thus attention is redirected away from the interface between Germany and the world of Roman power, and toward the maritime façade of the outer Ocean and the world of Herodotus’ Sarmatians.

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