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    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.
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    The student of Ammianus is not absolutely forced to consider such a silence, but doing so adds fresh color and depth to the picture Matthews paints: and this is typical. In one sense then this book as a whole is a cleverly disguised commentary on the text of Ammianus, but one rendered much more accessible to the reader.
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    Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality. ... Cornell studies in classical philology ; v. 56. ... Marcus, but after his death to compare him with Alexander might seem double-edged, so AM prefers other analogies, both Roman and Greek. B. notes the obvious distortions in AM's account of Julian's campaigns on the Rhine ...
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    Preview. This is the final volume of the Dutch commentary on the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus, so bringing to completion a project begun by P. de Jonge with the publication of his commentary on the first half of book 14 of this text in 1935. It beggars belief now that de Jonge should have been allowed to persist almost undisturbed in his production of commentaries on books 14-19 over ...
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    Jan 19, 2025Studies in ancient monarchies. ... to avoid detailed textual analysis helps explain why Bendle does not cite the standard commentary on the history of Ammianus Marcellinus even once in his footnotes even though this history serves as the main ancient source for his work ... The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361-630 (Cambridge, 2023); ...
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    This commentary is an indispensable tool for all students not only of Ammianus Marcellinus, but also of the military and political history of the mid-fourth century more generally. The strength of the more recent volumes of this commentary has lain in their detailed treatment of both philological and historical matters, and the authors maintain ...
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    A brief sketch of the history of Roman art commemorating military events brings us to the "ostensibly historic battle scenes" depicted in the series of reliefs on the Arch and the debate over the identification of their subject matter. ... Polybius, Caesar, and Ammianus Marcellinus. Taking a "two tier" approach, Harris first studies the ...
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    In section 3.7.1 (liberalitas), which is part of the chapter on "Geldwesen" (!), it emerges that Ammianus uses liberal to denote open-handedness, kindliness and the liberal arts. On the other hand, section 3.5.3 is entitled scientia rei militaris, a phrase occurring no more than three times in the Res Gestae. In this section, which deals ...
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    On the other hand, having used the volume under review while teaching Ammianus this term, there are really very few specific points I would wish to dispute: the phrase summa res at 24.1.1. is hardly obscure; that the Saracen Assanitae of 24.2.4 are the Ghassanids seems established; the commentators are surely right in accepting Ammianus ...
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    Ammianus' Book 25 is among the most interesting in the whole of the Res Gestae and not just for its contemporary relevance: a world empire, under an ambitious new ruler seeking easy glory, launches an ill-advised and badly prepared war in Mesopotamia and gets its nose badly bloodied. 1 Book 25 is the climax of Ammianus' Julianic narrative, a climax that he has been preparing for us since ...

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