- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (16 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 041520271X
- ISBN-13: 978-0415202718
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,226,982 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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Ammianus Marcellinus is usually studied as the mature author who completed the Res Gestae in the mid-390s, whose reporting on political and military affairs is subjected to all the usual tests for historical accuracy and literary influences. Read the first page
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