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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 ... of Ammianus Marcellinus," University of Missouri Studies 11, 1936, 118-40. For a summary
  2. 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.
  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. 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 ...
  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. 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 ...
  7. 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 ...
  8. 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 ...
  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. academic.oup.com

    Abstract. Ammianus Marcellinus' excursus on the Huns and Alans in the thirty-first and last book of his Res Gestae, in which he creates an image of an enemy that threatens the Roman empire, mainly serves to enhance the suspense in the final part of his narrative.It contains a message to the reigning emperor to defend the borders between barbarism and civilization.
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