TY  - JOUR
A1  - McNamara, James
T1  - The Portrayal of Germani in German Latin Textbooks, 1989-2009
JF  - Syllecta Classica
N2  - A survey of the portrayal of the Germani in Latin textbooks from 1989 to 2009, tracing the resurgence of interest in the Germani in the Federal Republic of Germany after German reunification and leading up to bimillennial commemoration of the battle in the Teutoburg Forest. The central sources are textbooks for the teaching of Latin, while context is provided by academic scholarship and representations of the Germani in other cultural contexts, including film and theatre, museums and tourist attractions. The study traces a process of demythologisation and the rise of a myth of mythlessness in the handling of ancient Germanic history. Germany’s role in the European Union is considered as a developing influence on the portrayal of ancient Germania, including Germania Romana, the Roman provinces of Germania, and Germania libera, the lands outside the empire.
KW  - Classical reception
KW  - Germania
KW  - Tacitus
KW  - Caesar
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Education
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1353/syl.2020.0003
SN  - 2160-5157
SN  - 1040-3612
VL  - 30
SP  - 73
EP  - 108
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - McNamara, James
T1  - The Portrayal of Germani in German Latin Textbooks, 1989-2009
JF  - Syllecta Classica
N2  - A survey of the portrayal of the Germani in Latin textbooks from 1989 to 2009, tracing the resurgence of interest in the Germani in the Federal Republic of Germany after German reunification and leading up to bimillennial commemoration of the battle in the Teutoburg Forest. The central sources are textbooks for the teaching of Latin, while context is provided by academic scholarship and representations of the Germani in other cultural contexts, including film and theatre, museums and tourist attractions. The study traces a process of demythologisation and the rise of a myth of mythlessness in the handling of ancient Germanic history. Germany’s role in the European Union is considered as a developing influence on the portrayal of ancient Germania, including Germania Romana, the Roman provinces of Germania, and Germania libera, the lands outside the empire.
KW  - Classical reception
KW  - Germania
KW  - Tacitus
KW  - Caesar
KW  - Textbooks
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1353/syl.2020.0003
SN  - 2160-5157
SN  - 1040-3612
VL  - 30
SP  - 73
EP  - 108
PB  - University of Iowa, Department of Classics
CY  - Iowa
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - McNamara, James
ED  - Geue, Tom
ED  - Giusti, Elena
T1  - Lost in Germania
BT  - the absence of history in Tacitus'  ethnography
JF  - Unspoken Rome: Absences in Latin Texts
N2  - Tacitus’ Germania is notable for its absences: lacking a preface and programmatic statements, and being the only ethnographic monograph to have survived from Greco-Roman antiquity, readers have often leapt to fill in its perceived blanks. This chapter aims at redressing the effects of overdetermined readings by interpreting the text’s absences as significant in their own right.
KW  - Tacitus
KW  - Germania
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Ethnographie
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Geschichtsschreibung
KW  - Absence
KW  - Latin literature
KW  - Lateinische Literatur
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/unspoken-rome/lost-in-germania/14769D9F862EC2E2868152BFF0B3D78D
SN  - 978-11-0884-304-1
U6  - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913843.012
SP  - 201
EP  - 218
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -