For a man who delved into the lives of others, not all that much is known about the life of Cornelius Tacitus, historian of Rome under the empire. He was born in 56 or 57 a.d. and is thought to have ...

Harvard classics professor Krebs writes a scholarly but lucid account of the abuse of history. Written in 98 C.E. by the Roman official Tacitus, About the Origin and Mores of the Germanic Peoples was ...

Caillan Davenport receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sometime in the 9th century AD, a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Fulda in modern Germany copied out an extensive Latin ...

THERE is a passage in the “Germania” of Tacitus (chapter xlv.) which I do not think can have ever been examined by the historians of natural science, or it would have created a considerable stir ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Since its first appearance in 1852, as a journal of textual criticism, Mnemosyne has been securing its position as one of the world ...