Germania - Germania

Japanese: ゲルマニア - げるまにあ(英語表記)Germania
Germania - Germania

A work by Roman politician and historian Tacitus. The original title is On the Origin and Customs of the Germanic People. It is the first comprehensive work on Germania, describing the Germanic tribes north of the Rhine and Danube. It was published in 98 AD. It is interpreted as a moral warning to the Romans against the threat of the north, contrasting the emerging Germanic people with the decadent Romans, but there is also a theory that it was born out of pure intellectual interest. It consists of 46 chapters in total, each of which is a short narrative. It is divided into two parts: the first part (chapters 1-27) is an overview of the general customs, rituals, and weddings of the Germanic people, and the second part (chapters 28-46) is a description of each of the Germanic tribes. It is considered to be the first historical source on the history of the primitive Germanic people and ancient German history, along with Caesar's The Gallic Wars.

[Hasegawa Hirotaka]

"Germania" translated and annotated by Hisanosuke Izumi (Iwanami Bunko)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ローマの政治家・歴史家タキトゥスの作品。原題は『ゲルマニア人の起源と風俗について』。ライン川とドナウ川の北のゲルマン人諸部族についての記述で、ゲルマニアに関する最初のまとまった作品。西暦98年に公刊された。新興のゲルマン人と退廃しつつあるローマ人とを対比して、北方の脅威に対するローマ人の注意を喚起し、道徳的な警鐘を鳴らしたものと解されるが、純粋な知的関心から生まれたものとみる説もある。全編46章。それぞれが短い叙述からなる。二つの部分に分けられ、第1部(第1~27章)は、ゲルマン人一般の習俗、祭祀(さいし)、冠婚などについての概観であり、第2部(第28~46章)は、ゲルマン人諸部族の個々についての記述となっている。原始ゲルマン人の歴史、ドイツ古代史の第一等の史料として、カエサルの『ガリア戦記』と並称される。

[長谷川博隆]

『泉井久之助訳註『ゲルマーニア』(岩波文庫)』

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