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Historian and soldier. Notable work. Res gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicised as Ammian [1] [2] ( 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 set himself the vast project of succeeding Tacitus as an historian, and might have entitled his work Res Gestae a fine Corneli Taciti; but the title which has come down to us is simply Res Gestae. 49 [p. xvi] It covered the period between the accession of Nerva in A.D. 96 to the death of Valens in 378, and was divided into thirty-one ...
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). The eighteen surviving books cover his own times, from 353 to 378, and fall naturally into three “hexads” or ...
Summary. 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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Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.1-9 Neil Warren Bernstein Ohio University, Athens, Ohio bernsten@ohio.edu Received July 2018 | Accepted September 2018 Abstract This paper examines Ammianus Marcellinus’ intertextual dialogue with epic tradition in his account of the Persian siege of Amida (Amm. Marc. 19.1-9). It adds to the stock of
The Philological and Historical Commentary to Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae is the standard and the only complete commentary on Res Gestae. It is of great importance to scholars in Roman history, Latin philology, military history and historiography in general.
Preface. In punctuation I have perhaps deviated more than in vol. i. from Clark's system (see Preface to vol. i.), especially when one metrical clausula is immediately followed by another consisting of a single word. In his description of natural phenomena, such as that of the rainbow in xx. 11, 26 ff., Ammianus is often inexact and sometimes ...
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