Those Limbs We Admire
Anthony Grafton: Himmler’s Tacitus, 14 July 2011
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’ ‘Germania’ from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
by Christopher Krebs.
Norton, 303 pp., £18.99, June 2011,978 0 393 06265 6 Show More
by Christopher Krebs.
Norton, 303 pp., £18.99, June 2011,
“... of ancient Germany was largely a work of the imagination, like Vico’s. But as Florike Egmond and Peter Mason have shown in a brilliant analysis, it was also complex in both its motivations and its contents. Though excellent in its own terms, Kreb’s account is so tightly defined that he misses parts of Clüver’s ambitious interdisciplinary enterprise ... ”