In Germania, there are many references to women of this time and their roles in society. Tacitus writes about the lives of barbarians, which revolved around agriculture and pillaging cities, but portrayed the barbarians as having an ultimate devotion to battle and all aspects of war. In the text by Tacitus it is written that when two barbarians married, the wife brought the husband arms for battle and was aware that she herself would journey with her husband wherever they went to war. Although in many cases wives did not participate in war, it is written that in times of loss during the war the wives would show the men their breasts as encouragement to fight harder. The importance of battle to the barbarians is repeatedly mentioned in several
