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  1. 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.
  2. 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 ...
  3. 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.
  4. scholarship.claremont.edu

    presence is almost unavoidable in English studies of Ammianus and Procopius, however recent. Even with this language limitation, there are still far too many scholarly sources in 3 Those are Andreas Mehl‟s Roman Historiography and Paolo Cesaretti‟s Theodora: Empress of Byzantium, originally written in German and Italian respectively.
  5. 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 ...
  6. 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 ...
  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. "The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus" by Ammianus Marcellinus is a historical account written in the late 4th century. The work chronicles the events from the accession of Nerva in A.D. 96 to the death of the Emperor Valens in A.D. 378, providing a detailed examination of the Roman Empire's political and military landscape during ...
  9. 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.
  10. 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 ...

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