Tacitus, one of the best historians of ancient Rome, wrote a Treatise on the Situation, Manners, and Inhabitants of Germany in the first century of the Christian era. It is one of our earliest records on the people who lived in that region of Europe.
This text is the Revised Oxford Translation. As usual, how revised is unknown at present. The original translator was Birley. This text is on the web, in part, elsewhere. However, it doesn’t include the very detailed notes. These comments throw a great deal of light on the text and are very interesting to boot. All the notes are present now.
The text is very short and the translation is extremely readable by today’s standards.
So brush up on your period characterizations and get started [HERE].
