Ammianus Marcellinus: Books 20-26

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Download or read book Ammianus Marcellinus: Books 20-26 written by Ammianus Marcellinus and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ammianus Marcellinus, ca. 325-ca. 395 CE, a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of the East Constantius II, and later under the emperor Julian, whom he admired and accompanied against the Alamanni and the Persians. 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. Soldier though he was, he includes economic and social affairs. He was broadminded towards non-Romans and towards Christianity. We get from him clear indications of causes of the fall of the Roman empire. His style indicates that his prose was intended for recitation.

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The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus

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The Roman History

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ISBN 13 : 9781543093674
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Download or read book The Roman History written by Ammianus Marcellinus and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus; Translated by C. D. Yonge. Ammianus Marcellinus (325/330-after 391) was a fourth-century Roman soldier and historian. History during the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens. Of Ammianus Marcellinus, the writer of the following History, we know very little more than what can be collected from that portion of it which remains to us. From that source we learn that he was a native of Antioch, and a soldier; being one of the prefectores domestici-the body-guard of the emperor, into which none but men of noble birth were admitted. He was on the staff of Ursicinus, whom he attended in several of his expeditions; and he bore a share in the campaigns which Julian made against the Persians. After that time he never mentions himself, and we are ignorant when he quitted the service and retired to Rome, in which city he composed his History. We know not when he was born, or when he died, except that from one or two incidental passages in his work it is plain that he lived nearly to the end of the fourth century: and it is even uncertain whether he was a Christian or a Pagan; though the general belief is, that he adhered to the religion of the ancient Romans, without, however, permitting it to lead him even to speak disrespectfully of Christians or Christianity. His History, which he divided into thirty-one books (of which the first thirteen are lost, while the text of those which remain is in some places imperfect), began with the accession of Nerva, A.D. 96, where Tacitus and Suetonius end, and was continued to the death of Valens, A.D. 378, a period of 282 years.

Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation: History, book 20-26

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Ammianus Marcellinus

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Ammianus after Julian

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ISBN 13 : 9047421515
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Download or read book Ammianus after Julian written by Jan den Boeft and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Books 26–31 Ammianus Marcellinus deals with the period of the emperors Valentinian and Valens. The representatives of the new dynasty differ greatly from their predecessor Julian, both personally and in their style of government. The Empire is divided between the two rulers, and suffers increasingly from barbarian invasions. Faced with these changes, Ammianus adapts his historical method. His treatment of the events becomes less detailed and more critical. The years following on the death of Julian are painted in dark colours, as the disaster at Hadrianople casts its shadow before. The papers in this volume, on History and Historiography, Literary Composition and Crisis of Empire, were presented during the conference "Ammianus after Julian" held in 2005.

Ammianus Marcellinus: History, Books 20-26

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Transformations of Romanness

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ISBN 13 : 311059756X
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The Later Roman Empire

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ISBN 13 : 0141921501
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Download or read book The Later Roman Empire written by Ammianus Marcellinus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, and Valens, and providing eyewitness accounts of significant military events including the Battle of Strasbourg and the Goth's Revolt. Portraying a time of rapid and dramatic change, Marcellinus describes an Empire exhausted by excessive taxation, corruption, the financial ruin of the middle classes and the progressive decline in the morale of the army. In this magisterial depiction of the closing decades of the Roman Empire, we can see the seeds of events that were to lead to the fall of the city, just twenty years after Marcellinus' death.

Constantius II

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ISBN 13 : 1473883938
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Ammianus Marcellinus

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ISBN 13 : 0521842999
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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians

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ISBN 13 : 0521854539
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ISBN 13 : 1848849109
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Lives of the Later Caesars

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ISBN 13 : 0141935995
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Julian the Apostate

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ISBN 13 : 9780674488823
Total Pages : 160 pages
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Ammianus Marcellinus : in three volumes. 3

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