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  2. 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 ...
  3. I. Introduction It is generally agreed that, of the sixteen extant manuscripts of the Res gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus, only two, both Carolingian, have any independent authority for reconstructing the text. One of these, from Fulda, was rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1417 (the same year as his recovery of Lucretius), was brought to Italy, and remains in the Vatican as Vat. Lat. 1873 ...
  4. 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 ...
  5. Ammianus, product of an overwhelmingly authoritarian society, provides a detailed record of Roman history in the third quarter of the fourth century. Understanding of Rome's civil and military performance in that age and of the author could be enhanced by examination of the authoritarian syndrome.
  6. 1: Ammianus The various digressions hint at Ammianus' preoccupation with acquiring and presenting information. Modern readers of the RG might regard the geographical and ethnographical digressions as awkward intrusions into the narrative of events and thus to be treated separately from the history proper. But such digressions were integral to ancient historiography, from Herodotus to ...
  7. The extant books of Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae cover the deeds of emperors and high officials in the quarter-century between 353 and 378 CE. The work is adorned with all the apparatus of classical historiography: prefaces, digressions, set speeches, battles and sieges, treason trials, and natural disasters.
  8. The Roman Friends of Ammianus - Volume 54 Issue 1-2. 5 Zur Geschichtsschreibung und Weltanschauung des Ammianus Marcellinus, Klio, Beiheft xvi (N.F. 111), 1923 (referred to hereafter simply by author's name and page), 7 f., following a suggestion of Peter, H., Die Geschichtliche Literatur über die römische Kaiser-zeit (1897) 11, 33 -4Google Scholar, that Symmachus' correspondence was ...
  9. T. D. Barnes, Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Reality (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology 56). Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 290. ... The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 90 , November 2000, pp. 251 - 252. DOI: https ...
  10. 25 Alan Cameron, op. cit. p. 334, quoting M. F. A. Brok, De Perzische expeditie von keizer Julianus volgens Ammianus Marcellinus. Note that two-thirds of what Zosimus has to say about Constantine is devoted to the civil wars with Maxentius and Licinius.
  11. Notes on Ammianus Marcellinus - Volume 42 Issue 1-2. To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account.

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