1. classicalstudies.org

    The final chapter of the 16th book of the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus is dedicated to the description of the battle of Strasbourg, during which the Romans, led by Julian, defeated a huge force of Alamanni in 357.As several scholars have highlighted (cf. Rosen; Bitter; Brodka), the description of Ammianus is based on the contrast between the Romans and the barbarians and, in particular ...
  2. Music, Arts & Culture; News & Public Affairs; Spirituality & Religion; Podcasts; Radio News Archive; Images. Metropolitan Museum Cleveland Museum of Art. Featured. ... The Roman history of Ammianus Marcellinus : during the reigns of the emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus. Publication date 1894
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  4. oxfordbibliographies.com

    Apr 12, 2024Introduction. 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.
  5. loebclassics.com

    Ammianus Marcellinus, ca. 325-ca. 395 CE, a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of the East Constantius II, and later under the emperor Julian, whom he admired and accompanied against the Alamanni and the Persians.He subsequently settled in Rome, where he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire in the period 96-378 ...
  6. en.wikipedia.org

    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 ...
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  8. Oct 4, 2023Loeb 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 ...
  9. 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
  10. jlong1.sites.luc.edu

    Ammianus Marcellinus deserves fame as the last practitioner of the great Roman art of secular historiography. We will read selections of his Res Gestae and, in seminar-style discussions, explore the important dimensions of his literary achievement: later Roman language, history and culture, political machinations, military triumphs and debacles, the challenge of imperial Christianity, and what ...
  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 ...
  12. 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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