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    The final chapter of the 16th book of the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus is dedicated to the description of the battle of Strasbourg, during which the Romans, led by Julian, defeated a huge force of Alamanni in 357.As several scholars have highlighted (cf. Rosen; Bitter; Brodka), the description of Ammianus is based on the contrast between the Romans and the barbarians and, in particular ...
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    Tacitus's central impact on the Res Gestae by the fourth-century Latin historian, Ammianus Marcellinus, has generally been assumed as obvious by many academics. Shared vocabulary from Tacitus occurs more than almost any other ancient author in the Res Gestae, and such instances have been relatively well observed by modern scholarship.Yet, the recorded Tacitean allusions in Ammianus's ...
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    The final chapter of the 16th book of the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus is dedicated to the description of the battle of Strasbourg, during which the Romans, led by Julian, defeated a huge force of Alamanni in 357. As several scholars have highlighted (cf. Rosen; Bitter; Brodka), the description of Ammianus is based on the contrast between the Romans and the barbarians and, in particular ...
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    These tropes had great staying-power because they described foreign customs as distortions or inversions of Greco-Roman cultural norms (Hartog 1980). Ethnographic topoi permeated every genre of literature and were thus deeply inculcated in the minds of Rome's political decision makers, educated as they were in the ancient liberal arts (Mattern ...
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    Ammianus Marcellinus's history survives as eighteen books numbered from 14 to 31, describing the years 353 to 378. His last paragraph (31.16.9) declares that his work had begun with Nerva's accession in 96; the extant books cross-refer about thirty-five times (without book numbers) to the lost books. This paper offers a new conjecture about the nature of these lost books, which have ...
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    Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae (ca. 390 CE) is nominally a continuation of Tacitus' historiographical oeuvre. Like Tacitus, Ammianus employs allusions to, and exempla of, early Rome and its original kings. As Timothy Joseph, Thomas Strunk, and others have shown, Tacitus' regal references allow readers familiar with canonical authors such as Livy and Ovid to evaluate emperors such as ...
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    Ammianus Marcellinus's history survives as eighteen books numbered from 14 to 31, describing the years 353 to 378. His last paragraph (31.16.9) declares that his work had begun with Nerva's accession in 96; the extant books cross-refer about thirty-five times (without book numbers) to the lost books.
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    Rumors are a staple of historical accounts, especially those related to military endeavors. Ammianus's Res Gestae is no different. The word rumor appears 46 times in the extant books; fama appears an additional 26 times. Among these references, Ammianus also employs the personification of rumor - the classical goddess Fama - in his narrative.
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    This paper will assess Julian in the context of fourth-century literature and history by addressing perceptions of Julian among his contemporaries, specifically in the West. It will reveal the particular (and generally overlooked) view of Julian that was available in the West before Ammianus Marcellinus wrote his dominating narrative of Julian's reign in Rome in the late 380s.
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    At 17.4 of his Res Gestae, Ammianus Marcellinus narrates at length how an obelisk originally removed from Egyptian Thebes is conveyed to Rome and installed in the Circus Maximus by the emperor Constantius II. This episode has received much scrutiny from scholars (e.g. Kelly 225-230, with bibliography in n. 8). Nevertheless, it is usually examined in isolation, as a historical curiosity.

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