#no but really there is also a great book about the reception of tacitus' germania and how said reception has been weaponized at times | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

breitzbachbea · 9 months ago

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Oh def don’t worry! If you don’t feel like answering them you can just delete lmao :3

Oh no, I totally feel like answering them, don't you worry, nonnie! With anons the pity is just that ppl don't get notified with answers, so I like to make posts immediately after receiving anon asks for ask games, in case answering them will take longer. Just so that anons like you know I won't have forgotten them!

#fair warning though I will say some stuff about the ancients and why the idea aside from specific tribes/polis is not smth I wanna engage in #-shakes fist- I am not playing your games rome!!! germania is an invention of the caesar industry to sell more military #no but really there is also a great book about the reception of tacitus' germania and how said reception has been weaponized at times #I haven't read it yet but I really MUST. bc the idea of what constitutes Germanness and the catastrophes it has led us to since the 19th #century is things I am immensely interested in and think more people should know #anon #beareplies #that said. I don't have much interest in Germania and Britannia (anymore) not for those reasons #but for the much simpler and yet no less complicated one of. What IS a Germania. Answer quickly.#Germanic as a description for anything coherent in antiquity makes NO sense UNLESS you want to talk about languages #Caesar literally arbitrarily drew a line and declared those Germanics enemies to friendly tribes to justify his invasion of gaul #'Bea it is Hetalia' I know. Why do you think I only write AUs this shit wrecks my head as soon as it goes beyond haha funny comic

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