Talk:Germania (book)

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[edit] Removed sentence

I removed the following sentence:

He is also to blame for the misnaming of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, which did not quite take place in the saltus Teutoburgiensis, as he claimed in the Germania.

This is misleading insofar as is is not known where the forest Tacitus called saltus Teutoburgiensis was located; the forest that is called Teutoburg Forest today was given that name in the 19th century when it was believed by some historians to be where the battle took place. -- Ferkelparade π 15:13, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Map

The map lists the Venedes as a Germanic tribe, while they were actually proto-Slavs. The trained eye will recognise here the thin edge of an ethnic game that has been going for a long time, both in "scholarly" debates and on the battlefield. Moreover, there is hardly any ground to regard the source of the image, lacking any academic credential, as reliable. L'omo del batocio 13:05, 24 September 2007 (UTC)