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    Introduction. Ammianus Marcellinus (b. c. 330—d. after 390) was a native Greek speaker who served in the Roman army and in about 390 completed the Res gestae, a Latin history in thirty-one books from Nerva to Valens (the years 96 to 378 CE).The eighteen surviving books cover his own times, from 353 to 378, and fall naturally into three "hexads" or groups of six books.
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    Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicized as Ammian [1] [2] (Greek: Αμμιανός Μαρκελλίνος; born c. 330, died c. 391 - 400), was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity (preceding Procopius).Written in Latin and known as the Res gestae, his work chronicled the history of Rome from the accession of Emperor ...
  4. britannica.com

    Ammianus Marcellinus (born c. 330, Antioch, Syria [now Antakya, Tur.]—died 395, Rome [Italy]) was the last major Roman historian, whose work continued the history of the later Roman Empire to 378.. Ammianus was born of a noble Greek family and served in the army of Constantius II in Gaul and Persia under the general Ursicinus, who was dismissed after he allowed the Persians to capture the ...
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  6. Loeb Classical Library volume L300. This surviving part (Books 14-19) of the historian's longer work describes the reigns of 4th-century emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens. Wikipedia has a main entry (Ammianus Marcellinus), and a group of related entries about the author, who lived from about 330 to about 400 ...
  7. Ammianus Marcellinus and his Classical Background Changing Perspectives ... of Macrobius," Journal of Roman Studies 56, 1966, 38; R. Syme, Ammianus and the Historia Augusta (Oxford 1968). The evidence which Thompson cites hardly supports his claim that ... of Ammianus Marcellinus," University of Missouri Studies 11, 1936, 118-40. For a summary
  8. bmcr.brynmawr.edu

    Table of Contents. Gavin Kelly's Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian is a thought-provoking and original study of a key fourth-century author. It makes a valuable contribution to the field of late antique studies and of Ammianus in particular by focusing on the literary aspects of the historian's text.
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    TheHistory of Ammianus Marcellinus, like most literary works of late antiquity, has always been judged against its classical background, of which Ammianus makes constant use and to which he makes constant reference. It is against this background that the evaluation of theHistory was formed and has changed; and it has changed greatly over time. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ...
  10. degruyter.com

    Since the late nineteenth century, studies of Ammianus' audience have reached widely divergent conclusions. Research has focused on two opposed theses: while some scholars have seen the pagan senatorial aristocracy as the audience of the Res Gestae , others have assigned that role to the imperial bureaucracy. However, in thinking that a work could reach—or target—exclusively the members ...
  11. cambridge.org

    Ammianus Marcellinus is usually regarded as our most important source for the history of the second half of the fourth century AD, while his literary qualities are neglected. This book demonstrates what a subtle and manipulative writer Ammianus is; attention is paid particularly to his rich and variegated intertextuality with earlier classical ...
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  1. Ammianus Marcellinus

    4th-century Roman historian and soldier

    Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicized as Ammian, was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity. Written in Latin and known as the Res gestae, his work chronicled the history of Rome from the accession of Emperor Nerva in 96 to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. Only the sections covering the period 353 to 378 survive. Wikipedia

    Bornc. 330, Roman Syria, possibly in Ammia, (modern-day Amioun, Lebanon)
    Diedc. 391 –400
    NationalityRoman
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