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    TACITUS’ STEREOTYPES

    Sep 21, 2021 3 minutes

    ublished in ca. AD 98, Tacitus’ introduces themes that are also relevant for his account of the Batavian Revolt, which we will discuss below. In it, he describes the land and customs of the people beyond the Danube and Rhine. It is a highly political treatise, because the emperor Domitian (r. AD 81-96) had just claimed to have defeated the Germanic tribes. Every Roman knew the coins with a mourning Germanic lady and the legend , but

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