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The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus
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The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus Hardcover - 1999

by Jan Willem Drijvers; David Hunt

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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.

Details

  • Title The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus
  • Author Jan Willem Drijvers; David Hunt
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London
  • Date November 12, 1999
  • ISBN 9780415202718 / 041520271X
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Ammianus Marcellinus, Rome - History - Empire, 284-476 -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99018312
  • Dewey Decimal Code 937.080

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