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  1. 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 ... MacMullen, "Some Pictures in Ammianus Marcellinus," The Art Bulletin 46, 1964, 435, and
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  3. 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 ...
  4. link.springer.com

    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 ...
    Author:Roger BlockleyPublished:1996
  5. 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.
  6. 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 ...
    Author:Darío N. Sánchez VendraminiPublished:2018
  7. 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 ...
  8. academic.oup.com

    Classical Studies. Browse content in Classical Studies; Classical Literature; Classical Philosophy; ... In the case of Ammianus Marcellinus, the meaning of the paradox is clearer to us in its general than in its particular aspects, for the exact circumstances in which it came about are not know to us — neither when Ammianus went to Rome to ...
  9. cambridge.org

    Ammianus Marcellinus - Volume 10. page 114 note 10 Through Arabic translations, his works had an important influence on medical science and practice in the rich civilisation of the Khalifat. Like Ammianus, he was an adherent of the ancient faith. It was he who brought back to Julian from Delphi the well-known lines announcing the extinction of the oracle, which may be called the swan-song of ...
  10. 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 ...
  11. scholarship.claremont.edu

    Abstract. This thesis explores the influence of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on modern scholarship about two ancient Roman historians, Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius of Caesarea.It reveals that Gibbon's way of thinking about these historians, whom he referred to as his "guides," continues to shape scholarly discourse about them.
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