2 Michel Dubuisson, Some Aspects of Graeco-Roman Relations: The. He has appeared on television and radio and occasionally reviews for the Wall Street Journal. Christopher Krebs, A Most Dangerous Book (New York: Norton &. He also enjoys offering classes in Stanford’s Continuing Studies program. He has co-organized and co-teaches the summer program for high school teachers Caesar in Gaul and has taught Greek and Latin at all levels, seminars on Greek and Roman historiography and Latin poetry, a freshman seminar on rhetoric, and a course on “Great Books, Big Ideas from Antiquity” as part of the new Humanities Core. He is currently working on a commentary on Caesar’s Gallic Wars (for Cambridge University Press) as well as an intellectual biography of Caesar in the context of the intellectual life of the Roman Republic (for W.W. Among his major publications are A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’ Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich and Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography. : A Most Dangerous Book: Tacituss Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich: 0884302142756: Krebs, Christopher B.: Libros : A Most Dangerous Book: Tacituss Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich: 0884302142756: Krebs, Christopher B.: Libros Omitir e ir al contenido principal. He works in the fields of intellectual history, Greek and Roman historiography, and Latin philology.
He taught at University College Oxford and Harvard before joining Stanford’s Classics department, and held visiting positions at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich. Rudolf Much's 1937 edition of the Germania provides a telling contrast to Fehrle's.Christopher Krebs studied classics and philosophy in Berlin, Kiel. It also places the Germania in the context of related National Socialist publications, primarily Fehrle's own and those from his publisher. Their prefaces and illustrations are especially revealing. This article examines Fehrle's ideological background and academic career and assesses the different editions. Full Book Name:A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich Author Name:Christopher B. A posthumous edition (1959) is instructive about the process of postwar whitewashing. A Most Dangerous Book (English, Paperback, Krebs Christopher B.) Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: WW Norton & Co Genre: History ISBN. Fehrle's first version (1929) presaged what was to come in the updated editions he published during the Third Reich (1935, 1939, 1944).
The twentieth-century editions of the work by the classicist and ethnologist ( Volkskundler) Eugen Fehrle are particularly revealing as a case of ideological appropriation of Tacitus in Nazi Germany.
Tacitus's Germania has played an influential part in German cultural history since the sixteenth century, primarily in political ideology rather than in historical or classical scholarship.
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