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1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) |
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Routledge classical monographs |
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Routledge classical monographs.
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| Contents |
Cover; The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I: Ammianus, Soldier and Historian; 2. Ammianus Marcellinus and Fourth-century Warfare; 3. Preparing the Reader for War; 4. The Persian Invasion of 359; 5. The Outsider Inside; 6. Ammianus and the Eunuchs; Part II: Images of Emperors; 7. Images of Constantius; 8. Telling Tales; 9. Ammianus on Jovian; 10. Nec Metu Nec Adulandi Foeditate Constricta; 11. Ammianus, Valentinian and the Rhine Germans |
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Part III: Rome, the Historian and his Audience12. Ammianus Satiricus; 13. A Persian at Rome; 14. Some Constantinian References in Ammianus; 15. Templum Mundi Totius; Part IV: The World Beyond, Persia and Isauria; 16. Ammianus Marcellinus' Image of Arsaces and Early Parthian History; 17. Pure Rites; 18. Visa Vel Lecta?; 19. Ammianus Marcellinus on Isauria; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-239) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Ammianus Marcellinus. Rerum gestarum libri.
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Ammianus Marcellinus fast |
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Rerum gestarum libri (Ammianus Marcellinus) fast |
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Historians -- Rome -- Biography
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Greeks -- Rome -- Biography
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Emperors -- Rome -- Biography -- History and criticism
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HISTORY -- Ancient.
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Emperors -- Biography
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Emperors
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Greeks
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Historians
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Historiography
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476 -- Historiography
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Drijvers, Jan Willem
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Hunt, David (Edward David), 1947-
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| LC no. |
99018312 |
| ISBN |
0203170911 |
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9780203170915 |
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0203024893 |
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9780203024898 |
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1280026006 |
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9781280026003 |
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9786610026005 |
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6610026009 |
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