# Annals 1–2 narrate Germanicus’s German campaigns, the Teutoburg burial, and his death in the East as a succession wound

Date: 116

## The fact

Annals 1–2 follow Germanicus on the Rhine, the burial of Varus’s dead, the mutinies, the Eastern command, and death at Antioch with Piso in the frame. Tacitus did not serve with Germanicus (dead in 19). Polarisation is the path: the book teaches a good prince versus a dark Tiberius, a split that later politics reused. Archival locator: Perseus — Tacitus, Annals (English) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0078 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Context

Related-people must call Germanicus a subject. The campaigns also kill and displace on the Rhine; that mix is not cloned as a second displace Fact of the same chapters. Archaeology of Kalkriese is later and is not his act. Archival locator: Perseus — Tacitus, Annals (English) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0078 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Germanicus is a subject of the Annals, not [Tacitus](/people/tacitus)’s coworker. Mixed effects of Annals 1–2 narrate Germanicus’s German campaigns, the Teutoburg burial, and his death in the East as a succession wound are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Perseus Annals 1–2 English and Latin Library Annals 1–2 are public. Britannica independently treats Germanicus through these books as a principal literary source. LacusCurtius faces the English. No 19 CE coroner’s file is recovered. Archival locator: Perseus — Tacitus, Annals (English) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0078 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Perseus — Tacitus, Annals (English) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0078; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

A portable good-prince tragedy is a polarisation path: readers pick sides in a dead court. Medium confidence on events versus colour. Later German nationalism around Teutoburg is reception, not 116. Archival locator: Perseus — Tacitus, Annals (English) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0078 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

The attached driver is [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Germanicus narrative as his Annals. Not established: poison as proven, or unique campaign death totals. Conventional Annals date. Not a colleague-relationship. Archival locator: Perseus — Tacitus, Annals (English) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0078 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Shared responsibility is part of Annals 1–2 narrate Germanicus’s German campaigns, the Teutoburg burial, and his death in the East as a succession wound. Naming Tacitus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0116-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Tacitus: https://factrail.ai/people/tacitus

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian
- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0078

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tac-germanicus-annals