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    The work of Ammianus Marcellinus offers perhaps the most sensationalistic of all ancient portrayals of mountain peoples and mountain warfare. Ammianus' Res Gestae covers the period 353 to 378 CE. It is based in part on his own experience: he describes at length his involvement in fighting against the Persians in what is now eastern Turkey, and his experience of being besieged in the city of ...
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    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 ...
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    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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    Ammianus Marcellinus is one of our most important sources for late Roman warfare, and his significance in this regard has long been recognized. ... Browse content in Art; History of Art; Classical Studies. Browse content in Classical Studies; Classical History; ... are examinations of Ammianus' views on generalship contextualized into wider ...
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    This book presents a re-examination of Ammianus Marcellinus' agenda and methods in narrating the reign of the emperor Julian (355-63). ... Classical Art and Architecture. Classical Oratory and Rhetoric. Greek and Roman Epigraphy. ... and holds a prominent position in modern studies of the last 'pagan' emperor.
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    Based on this evidence, most historians assumed that Marcellinus was an officer of the western Roman army in Dalmatia. The chapter takes a new approach, initially disregarding Procopius' information on Marcellinus and using other sources to produce a reconstruction which will be considered against the Procopius material.
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    Abstract. The Epilogue offers a summation of the main arguments of the book; namely that Ammianus Marcellinus casts the major episodes of Julian's reign as topoi, which are familiar from classicizing historiography in Latin, and that in doing so he deliberately presents a more 'Romanized' account of Julian for a Western, Latin-speaking audience.
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    McEvoy, Meaghan A., '1 The Emperor in the Late Roman World', Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455, Oxford Classical Monographs (Oxford, 2013; ... we can set the secular history of Ammianus Marcellinus. This important text, ... and was trained neither in the art of war nor in liberal studies'. 24 According to the Panegyrici ...
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    Classical Art and Architecture. Classical Oratory and Rhetoric. Greek and Roman Archaeology. ... 'Marcellinus Comes: The Man and his Work', Count Marcellinus and his Chronicle (Oxford, 2001; ... Classical Studies. Early Christianity. History. History by Period. Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500) Religion.
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    Ancient Roman History Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Late Antiquity Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online The cumulative impression of the above reconstruction is that Marcellinus and Dalmatia had more connections with the eastern empire than with the western empire.
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