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Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicised as Ammian (Greek: Αμμιανός Μαρκελλίνος; born c. 330, died c. 391 – 400), was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity (preceding Procopius).
Ammianus Marcellinus (born c. 330, Antioch, Syria [now Antakya, Tur.]—died 395, Rome [Italy]) was the last major Roman historian, whose work continued the history of the later Roman Empire to 378.
Sep 5, 2008 · Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation by John C. Rolfe. by. Ammianus Marcellinus; Rolfe, John Carew, 1859-1943. Publication date. 1935. Topics. Rome -- History Empire, 284-476.
1 Against Magnentius, who in 350 had assumed the rank of an Augustus in the west, with Veteranio; but was defeated, in 351, by Constantius at Mursa, on the river Drave, a tributary of the Danube and in the passes of the Cottian Alps in 353. His followers then abandoned him and he committed suicide.
Ammianus wrote for Roman readers, and in particular for the leading literary circle of the Eternal City, of which Symmachus was a prominent member. It was for that reason, and not merely because he was continuing the narrative of Tacitus, that he wrote in Latin and not in his native language.
Sep 29, 2015 · Ammianus Marcellinus (b. c . 330—d. after 390) was a native Greek speaker who served in the Roman army and in about 390 completed the Res gestae, a Latin history in thirty-one books from Nerva to Valens (the years 96 to 378 CE ).
Nov 28, 2010 · 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.
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