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Why did Tacitus use the lives of the Germanic peoples to reflect on Rome?

In this blog post, I examined the significance of Tacitus’s ‘Germania’ by focusing on the daily lives and customs of the ancient Germanic peoples, their relationship with Rome, and Tacitus’s perspective on them.   Who was Tacitus? While reading ‘Germania’, my interest was first drawn to Tacitus himself. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as one of the greatest...