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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

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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 ...
  3. Jan 1, 2025Ammianus 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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  4. 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 ...
  5. 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.
  6. Convention, Nostalgia and Reality in Ammianus Marcellinus," in: G. Clarke, ed., Reading the Past in Late Antiquity (Rushcutters Bay 1990) 59-92. 2. See E. A. Thompson, The Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (Cambridge 1947) 19 and Roger Blockley, Office of the Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, Carleton Univer-
  7. 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 ...
  8. 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 ...
  9. 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 ...
  10. Ammianus Marcellinus Online is the digital version of the standard and the only complete commentary on Ammianus' Res Gestae, by J. den Boeft, D. den Hengst, H.C. Teitler and J.W. Drijvers (books 20-31), and P. de Jonge (books 14-19).Their philological and historical commentary has received much praise in the international scholarly world, and has been completed in 2018.
  11. 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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