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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455533203321

Titolo

The late Roman world and its historian [[electronic resource] ] : interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus / / edited by Jan Willem Drijvers and David Hunt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-280-02600-6

9786610026005

0-203-02489-3

0-203-17091-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DrijversJan Willem

HuntDavid <1947-> (Edward David)

Disciplina

937/.08/092

Soggetti

Historians - Rome

Greeks - Rome

Emperors - Rome - History

Electronic books.

Rome History Empire, 284-476 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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'