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- Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, Book XXXI
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Introduction The life of Ammianus. Our knowledge of Ammianus...
- Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, Book XXXI
Ammianus’s history, Rerum gestarum libri (“The Chronicles of Events”), consisted of 31 books, of which only the last 18, covering the years 353–378, survive. The first 13 books were already unavailable to scholars in the 6th century.
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Written in Latin and known as the Res gestae, his work chronicled the history of Rome from the accession of the Emperor Nerva in 96 to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. Only the sections covering the period 353 to 378 survive. Biography. Bust of Emperor Constantius II from Syria.
He subsequently settled in Rome, where he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire in the period 96–378 CE, entitled Rerum Gestarum Libri XXXI. Of these 31 books only 14–31 (353–378 CE ) survive, a remarkably accurate and impartial record of his own times.
Ammianus Marcellinus Online. Ammianus Marcellinus Online consists of three works: A commentary: P. de Jonge, Jan den Boeft, Daniël den Hengst, Hans C. Teitler, and Jan Willem Drijvers, Philological and Historical Commentary to Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae, vols. XIV-XXXI (Leiden, 1935-2018)
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