Lost in Germania
- 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.
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| Author details: | James McNamaraORCiD |
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| URL: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/unspoken-rome/lost-in-germania/14769D9F862EC2E2868152BFF0B3D78D |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913843.012 |
| ISBN: | 978-11-0884-304-1 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Unspoken Rome: Absences in Latin Texts |
| Subtitle (English): | the absence of history in Tacitus' ethnography |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Place of publishing: | Cambridge |
| Editor(s): | Tom Geue, Elena Giusti |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/09/03 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2024/04/25 |
| Tag: | Ethnographie; Geschichtsschreibung Absence; Ethnography; Germania; Historiography; Lateinische Literatur; Latin literature; Tacitus |
| Number of pages: | 19 |
| First page: | 201 |
| Last Page: | 218 |
| Funding institution: | DAAD |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Klassische Philologie |
| DDC classification: | 8 Literatur / 87 Lateinische, italische Literaturen / 870 Italische Literaturen; Lateinische Literatur |
| 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 93 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie / 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie | |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
