The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus
by Jan Willem Drijvers (Editor), David Hunt (Editor)
Routledge Classical Monographs
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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 show more contributors engage especially with the concept of self-identification. They address the tension of Ammianus' show lessTags
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Jan Willem Drijvers is lecturer in Ancient History, University of Groningen.
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- The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus
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- History, Nonfiction
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- 937.08 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Absolute 284-476 A.D.
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- DG206 .A4 .L37 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania City History of Italy Ancient Italy. Rome to 476 History General
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