“Ideologically aligned readers of the Germania considered the laws … as the ‘most recent effort’ to restore the racial purity Tacitus mentioned,” Krebs writes. The guidebook for the ...

A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always ... According to the Roman historian Tacitus, people here lived in thatched huts and dugout houses, subsisting on barley soup ...

Tacitus is the great historian of imperial Rome. His writing is beautiful, unsettling, extraordinarily persuasive. We know many of his likes and dislikes about people and politics, but facts about ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman historian Tacitus, whose portrayal of Roman decadence influences the way we see Rome today. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman historian ...