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Book Synopsis Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality by : Timothy David Barnes
Download or read book Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality written by Timothy David Barnes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on Ammianus to place equal emphasis on the literary and historical aspects of his writing. Barnes assesses Ammianus' depiction of historical reality by simultaneously investigating both the historical accuracy and the literary qualities of the Res Gestae. He examines its structure and arrangement, emphasizes its Greek, pagan, and polemical features, and points out the extent to which Ammianus drew on his imagination in shaping the narrative.
Book Synopsis Ammianus Marcellinus From Soldier to Author by :
Download or read book Ammianus Marcellinus From Soldier to Author written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ammianus Marcellinus was a soldier and an author. This book explores how his experience of 4th-century military life affected his writing of history and conversely how his knowledge of literature influenced his writing about the Roman army.
Book Synopsis Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI by :
Download or read book Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the series of philological and historical commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae this volume deals with Book 26, in which the beginning of the reign of Valentinian and Valens is described and the rise and fall of the usurper Procopius.
Download or read book Ammianus Marcellinus written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the series of philological and historical commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae this volume deals with Book 27, in which the author deals with military operations and internal affairs. In the central part of the book the emperor Valentinian is portrayed.
Book Synopsis Ammianus' Julian by : Alan James Ross
Download or read book Ammianus' Julian written by Alan James Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae holds a prominent position in modern studies of the emperor Julian as the fullest extant narrative of the reign of the last "pagan" emperor. Ammianus' Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae offers a major reinterpretation of the work, which is one of the main narrative sources for the political history of the later Roman Empire, and argues for a re-examination of Ammianus' agenda and methods in narrating the reign of Julian. Building on recent developments in the application of literary approaches and critical theories to historical texts, Ammianus' presentation of Julian is evaluated by considering the Res Gestae within three interrelated contexts: as a work of Latin historiography, which consciously sets itself within a classical and classicizing generic tradition; in a more immediate literary and political context, as the final contribution by a member of an "eyewitness" generation to a quarter century of intense debate over Julian's legacy by several authors who had lived through his reign and had been in varying degrees of proximity to Julian himself; and as a narrative text, in which narratorial authority is closely associated with the persona of the narrator, both as an external narrating agent and an occasional participant in the events he relates. This is complemented by a literary survey and a re-analysis of Ammianus' depiction of several key moments in Julian's reign, such as his appointment as Caesar, the battle of Strasbourg in 357 AD, his acclamation as Augustus, and the disastrous invasion of Persia in 363 AD. It suggests that the Res Gestae presents a Latin-speaking, western audience with an idiosyncratic and "Romanized" depiction of the philhellene emperor and that, consciously exploiting his position as a Greek writing in Latin and as a contemporary of Julian, Ammianus wished his work to be considered a culminating and definitive account of the man and his life.
Book Synopsis Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXX by : Jan den Boeft
Download or read book Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXX written by Jan den Boeft and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of Book 30 of Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae is devoted to the military and diplomatic struggle for Armenia between Valens, emperor of the East, and king Sapor II of Persia. The Romans successfully defend their position, until they are forced to deal with the Goths who threaten to cross the Danube border. The second half of Book 30 is dominated by Valentinian I, emperor of the West. Ammianus presents a kaleidoscopic picture of this emperor alternating between admiration for his military qualities and devotion to his duty and bitter criticism of his avarice and cruelty. The account of his death forms the conclusion of Ammianus’ treatment of the history of the western half of the Empire.
Book Synopsis Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVII by : Jan den Boeft
Download or read book Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVII written by Jan den Boeft and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 27 deals with events between 365 and 370. Military operations in the western and eastern half of the Empire take up a large part of the available space. Apart from military matters Ammianus deals with internal affairs. He discusses the terms of office of four Roman urban prefects and paints a picture of Petronius Probus, the mightiest civil official of the period. The most striking part of the book contains a portrait of the emperor Valentinian. This passage forms the centre of the book, which therefore has the structure of a triptych: of the two outer parts each contains military affairs in the West and the East and reports on some notable non-military events, whilst in the central panel Valentinian takes pride of place.
Book Synopsis The Late Roman World and Its Historian by : Jan Willem Drijvers
Download or read book The Late Roman World and Its Historian written by Jan Willem Drijvers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity by : Andrew Cain
Download or read book The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity written by Andrew Cain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Antiquity witnessed a dramatic recalibration in the economy of power, and nowhere was this more pronounced than in the realm of religion. The transformations that occurred in this pivotal era moved the ancient world into the Middle Ages and forever changed the way that religion was practiced. The twenty eight studies in this volume explore this shift using evidence ranging from Latin poetic texts, to Syriac letter collections, to the iconography of Roman churches and Merowingian mortuary goods. They range in chronology from the late third through the early seventh centuries AD and apply varied theories and approaches. All converge around the notion that religion is fundamentally a discourse of power and that power in Late Antiquity was especially charged with the force of religion. The articles are divided into eight sections which examine the power of religion in literature, theurgical power over the divine, emperors and the deployment of religious power, limitations on the power of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, the use of the cross as a symbol of power, Rome and its transformation as a center of power, the power of religion in the barbarian west, and religious power in the communities of the east. This kaleidoscope of perspectives creates a richly illuminating volume that add a new social and political dimension to current debates about religion in Late Antiquity.
Book Synopsis The Spartan War Fund by : William T. Loomis
Download or read book The Spartan War Fund written by William T. Loomis and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1992 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and expanded text, with translation, of the best-known Spartan inscription (Meiggs & Lewis no. 67), together with detailed epigraphical, textual, historical and economic commentaries. The new text is based on a fresh examination of the stone, the diaries of early travellers (who saw the stone when it was better preserved than it is today), and a newly discovered fragment, which adds Aiginetan and Chian exiles, and individual Achaians and Spartans, to the list of Sparta's war supporters. This new text enables the date of the inscription, previously controversial, to be fixed in the early years of the Peloponnesian War, thereby shedding light on Spartan war-finance and Greek attitudes towards Athens in the 420s and providing a badly-needed fixed point for Laconian Epigraphy. The monograph also clarifies the meaning of the Greek words "pheugo", "phugas".
Book Synopsis Maistor: Classical, Byzantine and Renaissance Studies for Robert Browning by : Ann Moffatt
Download or read book Maistor: Classical, Byzantine and Renaissance Studies for Robert Browning written by Ann Moffatt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Ann Moffat -- The Publications of Robert Browning /Ian Martin -- The Controversy about Slavery reported by Aristotle, Politics, I vi, 1255a4 following /Trevor J. Saunders -- Greek Ethics after MacIntyre and the Stoic Community of Reason /A.A. Long -- The Early Pantomime Riots /E.J. Jory -- The Dark Side of the Moon /P.J. Bicknell -- An Early-Fourth-Century Female Monastic Community in Egypt? /Alanna Emmett -- Friends and Enemies of John Chrysostom /J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz -- The Holy Men and their Biographers in early Byzantium and medieval China: A preliminary comparative study in hagiography /Samuel N.C. Lieu -- Reflections upon the Theological Tractates of Boethius /John R.S. Mair -- The Poetic Achievement of George of Pisidia: A literary and historical study /J.D.C. Frendo -- Thema /J.D. Howard-Johnston -- The Life of St Athanasia of Aegina: A critical edition with introduction /Lydia Carras -- The Bath of Leo the Wise /Paul Magdalino -- Iakovos Monachos, Letter 3 /M.J. Jeffreys -- Matthaios Gabalas and his Kephalaia /Athanassios Angelou -- An Emperor without Clothes? Niccolò Niccoli under attack /M.C. Davies -- 'The Faithless Kabazitai and Scbolarioi ' /A.A.M. Bryer -- Constantine XI Palaeologus; some problems of image /Margaret Carroll -- The After-Life of the Letters of Theophylaktos Simokatta /Ann Moffatt -- Plates /Ann Moffat.
Book Synopsis On Machines by : Athenaeus (Mechanicus.)
Download or read book On Machines written by Athenaeus (Mechanicus.) and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul by : Ralph Mathisen
Download or read book Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul written by Ralph Mathisen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Roman Gaul is often seen either from a classical Roman perspective as an imperial province in decay and under constant threat from barbarian invasion or settlement, or from the medieval one, as the cradle of modern France and Germany. Standard texts and "moments" have emerged and been canonized in the scholarship on the period, be it Gaul aflame in 407 or the much-disputed baptism of Clovis in 496/508. This volume avoids such stereotypes. It brings together state-of-the-art work in archaeology, literary, social, and religious history, philology, philosophy, epigraphy, and numismatics not only to examine under-used and new sources for the period, but also critically to reexamine a few of the old standards. This will provide a fresh view of various more unusual aspects of late Roman Gaul, and also, it is hoped, serve as a model for ways of interpreting the late Roman sources for other areas, times, and contexts.
Book Synopsis The Last Pagan Emperor by : H. C. Teitler
Download or read book The Last Pagan Emperor written by H. C. Teitler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during his short reign tried to revive paganism, which, after the conversion to Christianity of his uncle Constantine the Great early in the fourth century, began losing ground at an accelerating pace. Having become an orphan when he was still very young, Julian was taken care of by his cousin Constantius II, one of Constantine's sons, who permitted him to study rhetoric and philosophy and even made him co-emperor in 355. But the relations between Julian and Constantius were strained from the beginning, and it was only Constantius' sudden death in 361 which prevented an impending civil war. As sole emperor, Julian restored the worship of the traditional gods. He opened pagan temples again, reintroduced animal sacrifices, and propagated paganism through both the spoken and the written word. In his treatise Against the Galilaeans he sharply criticised the religion of the followers of Jesus whom he disparagingly called 'Galilaeans'. He put his words into action, and issued laws which were displeasing to Christians--the most notorious being his School Edict. This provoked the anger of the Christians, who reacted fiercely, and accused Julian of being a persecutor like his predecessors Nero, Decius, and Diocletian. Violent conflicts between pagans and Christians made themselves felt all over the empire. It is disputed whether or not Julian himself was behind such outbursts. Accusations against the Apostate continued to be uttered even after the emperor's early death. In this book, the feasibility of such charges is examined.
Book Synopsis Empire of the Owl by : Loren J. Samons
Download or read book Empire of the Owl written by Loren J. Samons and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough and authoritative study of Athenian finance both before and during the Peloponnesian War. Loren Samons tackles the complexities of Athenian revenue and state expenditure, drawing on a range of literary and historical source material which survives in varying degrees of detail. Rents, taxes, tribute, fines, slave sales, fees and so forth formed the basis for state income which were then used to run the Athenian `machine', to pay various people for their services to the state and for beautifying their towns and cities.
Book Synopsis Roman Frontier Studies 2009 by : Nick Hodgson
Download or read book Roman Frontier Studies 2009 written by Nick Hodgson and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (LIMES XXI), hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in August 2009.
Book Synopsis Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power by : Lea Niccolai
Download or read book Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power written by Lea Niccolai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise and consolidation of a Christian politics of interpretation that relied on exegesis as a self-legitimising device to secure control over Roman history via claims to Christianity's control of paideia. This reconstruction infuses Julian's reaction with contextual significance. His literary and political project emerges as a response to contemporary reconfigurations of Christian hermeneutics as controlling the meaning of Rome's culture and history. At the same time, understanding Julian as a participant in a larger debate re-qualifies all fourth-century political and episcopal discourse as a long knock-on effect reacting to the imperial mobilisation of Christian debates over the link between power and culture.
