Tacitus Essay
Choose and read at least one of the primary source works of Tacitus, Agricola
or Germania.
Write a five-page essay that addresses the following questions.
1. What is your thesis that explains how we should locate Tacitus historically
within the context of the first century CE? Who was Tacitus writing for?
Audience?
2. What are some key differences between the Romans and the foreign
peoples Tacitus described? Why? Examples?
3. To which extent did Tacitus respect the foreign peoples he described in his
ethnographic digressions? Why? Examples?
4. What does Tacitus’s work tell us about Roman values circa 100 CE? Why?
Examples?
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