Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality
Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality

Author: Timothy David Barnes

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780801435263

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This is the first book on Ammianus to place equal emphasis on the literary and historical aspects of his writing. Barnes assesses Ammianus' depiction of historical reality by simultaneously investigating both the historical accuracy and the literary qualities of the Res Gestae. He examines its structure and arrangement, emphasizes its Greek, pagan, and polemical features, and points out the extent to which Ammianus drew on his imagination in shaping the narrative.

Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus

Author: Gavin Kelly

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0521842999

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Examines the work of Ammianus Marcellinus, who has often been underestimated as a writer while lauded as an historian. This book portrays him as a subtler writer and more manipulative and partial historian, using allusion to the classical past to insinuate different meanings.

The Later Roman Empire
The Later Roman Empire

Author: Ammianus Marcellinus

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-07-01

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 0141921501

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Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, and Valens, and providing eyewitness accounts of significant military events including the Battle of Strasbourg and the Goth's Revolt. Portraying a time of rapid and dramatic change, Marcellinus describes an Empire exhausted by excessive taxation, corruption, the financial ruin of the middle classes and the progressive decline in the morale of the army. In this magisterial depiction of the closing decades of the Roman Empire, we can see the seeds of events that were to lead to the fall of the city, just twenty years after Marcellinus' death.

Ammianus after Julian
Ammianus after Julian

Author: Jan den Boeft

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007-08-31

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9047421515

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In Books 26–31 Ammianus Marcellinus deals with the period of the emperors Valentinian and Valens. The representatives of the new dynasty differ greatly from their predecessor Julian, both personally and in their style of government. The Empire is divided between the two rulers, and suffers increasingly from barbarian invasions. Faced with these changes, Ammianus adapts his historical method. His treatment of the events becomes less detailed and more critical. The years following on the death of Julian are painted in dark colours, as the disaster at Hadrianople casts its shadow before. The papers in this volume, on History and Historiography, Literary Composition and Crisis of Empire, were presented during the conference "Ammianus after Julian" held in 2005.

The Late Roman World and Its Historian
The Late Roman World and Its Historian

Author: Jan Willem Drijvers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1134631782

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Ammianus Marcellinus, Greek by birth but writing in Latin c. AD 390, was the last great Roman historian. His writings are an indispensable basis for our knowledge of the late Roman world. This book represents a collection of papers analysing Ammianus's writings from a variety of perspective, including Ammianus as historian of, and participant in, Julian's Persian campaign, his identification with traditional religious attitudes and values in Rome and his view of the Persian Magi. The contributors engage especially with the concept of self-identification. They address the tension of Ammianus' dual role as both 'outside' external narrator and at the same time and 'insider' to the contemporary experiences and events which make up his surviving history.

Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus

Author: Fred C. Jenkins

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-11-14

Total Pages: 683

ISBN-13: 9004335382

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In Ammianus Marcellinus: An Annotated Bibliography, 1474 to the Present, Fred W. Jenkins surveys scholarship on Ammianus from the editio princeps to the present. Included are bibliographies, editions, translations, commentaries, concordances and indexes, Web sites, and secondary scholarship in many languages.