To which extent did Tacitus respect the foreign peoples he described in his ethnographic digressions? Why?

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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.

What are some key differences between the Romans and the foreign

peoples Tacitus described? Why? Examples?

To which extent did Tacitus respect the foreign peoples he described in his

ethnographic digressions? Why? Examples?

What does Tacitus’s work tell us about Roman values circa 100 CE? Why?

Examples?