tacitus

The society Tacitus describes in the Germania in 98 is one constantly at war.

We have views through the eyes of Tacitus and Bede, but these come with unknown biases and misunderstandings.

For rites, Tacitus mentions that Mercury receives animal and human sacrifices while other deities only get animals.

The Roman writers saw themselves as bringing the light of Roman culture to the barbarians (read Tacitus sometime), and so forth.

Your apologia is as old as the Roman Empire, and made as little sense then - as Tacitus points out using Calcagus above.

Guy Davenport wrote that the filmmaker Stan Brakhage once decided to skip the newspapers, and instead read Tacitus with his family over breakfast.

> For rites, Tacitus mentions that Mercury receives animal and human sacrifices while other deities only get animals.

I've read some Plutarch, Seutonius, Tacitus (in translation) and always wondered how the Old Testament measured up as a work of ancient literature.

It’s so interesting to me that nearly all of the Founding Fathers had read Tacitus and were keenly aware of this and explicitly tried to design a system to prevent that from happening.

Either way, the argument that the foremost deity interpreted by Tacitus as a ‘Mercury-type’ must be Wodan/Óðinn is a projection of the latter’s supremacy in Old Norse material onto a Germanic society several centuries older.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, TE Lawrence The Histories, Tacitus The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger (caveat, it was most effective when I read it at 16) Redwall, Brian Jaques (got me really excited about reading when I was in the fourth grade) This list could be much, much longer, but those are the most prominent 'life-changers' that come to mind.

I think the right quote written by Tacitus was "they make solitude and call it peace".

[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.]” — Tacitus, the Annals ca.

It's as Tacitus wrote of the Romans: "To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."

The omission of conjunctions sounds as abrupt, curt, and pompous in Latin as it does in English: "guard the user, the data, the truth." Only Sallust and Tacitus get to write this way.

Tacitus hated him to guts and later Christian history dubbed him as the worst tyrant.

In Samuel Johnson's time, a woman brought out a well regarded translation of Tacitus.

For history buffs from Europe, the experience of Germanicus (at least as recounted by Tacitus) in the swamps across the Rhine may have a similar implication.