In Netflix's "Barbarians" ("Barbaren" in its original dub), the Germanic pagan peoples have been depicted in a meticulously thought out way. But how accurate is their depiction compared to the sources who left us what little we know about the Germanic people to this very day?
In this video, I aim to set out how accurately the Germanic people have been depicted and what we can learn both from the series as well as the classical sources that spoke of these people who wander the swamps and dark forests of Germania.
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Further reading:
Beare, W. (1964). "Tacitus on the Germans". Greece & Rome. Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association. 11 (1): 64-76.
Bowman, A.K. (1994). Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier. Vindolanda and Its People.
Burns, T. (2003). Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.-A.D. 400.
Davidson, H.R. (1965). Gods and Myths of Northern Europe.
Denison, M. (2012). The Twelve Caesars: The Dramatic Lives of the Emperors of Rome.
Derks, T. (2009). 'Ethnic Identity in the Roman Frontier. The Epigraphy of Batavi and Other Lower Rhine Tribes'. In: T. Derks and
N. Roymans (red.). Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity. The Role of Power and Tradition.
Dowden, K. (2000). European Paganism: The Realities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
Driel-Murray, C. (2002). 'Ethnic soldiers. The Experience of the Lower Rhine Tribes', in: T. Grünewald and S. Seibel (eds) Kontinuität und Diskontinuität: Germania inferior am Beginn und am Ende der römischen Herrschaft. Beiträge des Deutschniederländischen Kolloquium in der Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen.
James, E. (2014). Europe's Barbarians, AD 200-600.
Jones, P. (1995). A History of Pagan Europe.
Johne, K-P. (2006). Die Römer an der Elbe. Das Stromgebiet der Elbe im geographischen Weltbilt und im politischen Bewusstsein der griechisch-römischen Antike.
Kuckenburg, M. (2007). Kultstätten und Opferplätze in Deutschland. Von der Steinzeit bis zum Mittelalter.
Manco, J. (2013). Ancestral Journeys: The People of Europe from the First Ventures to the Vikings.
Müller-Wille, M. (1999). Opferkulte der Germanen und Slawen.
Simek, R. (2004). Götter und Kulte der Germanen.
Todd, M. (2004). The Early Germans.
Wallace-Hadrill, J. M. (2004). The Barbarian West, 400-1000.
Sources used:
Admonitio generalis.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico.
Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae.
Commenta Bernensia.
Caesarius, Sermon.
Council of Tours, 18 November 567.
Martin of Braga, De correctione rusticorum.
Plutarch, Crassus.
Strabo, Geographica.
Tacitus, Annales.
Tacitus, Germania.
Tacitus, Historiae.
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