The
paper explains that Tacitus, instead of adopting a colonialist's attitude to the vanquished in the
expansion of the Roman Empire, uses scientific means to study them. The author points out that Tacitus's
major complaint is that, in the mad drive to the expansion of the Roman Empire to be established as the major
superpower, the Romans lost their identity. The paper reports that Tacitus, in "Germania", gives a general description of various cultural facets of ancient and pre-medieval Germany: ethnology, climate and resources,
war, government
women and religion, administration, justice and education, habits and institutions, marriage laws, feuds and hospitality and drink, gambling, slavery, and tillage.