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Julian the Apostate, Claudius Mamertinus, and Ammianus Marcellinus: Filling in a “Blank Spot”?
Clotho, 2023 Flavius Claudius Julianus, often referred to as “Julian the Apostate,” ruled the Roman Empire from early 360 AD until his death in battle on June 26th, 363 AD.
Gregor Pobežin
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Casi di corruzione nei Rerum Gestarum libri di Ammiano Marcellino
Erga-Logoi, 2020 The paper provides food for thought on the issue of corruption in Ammianus Marcellinus’ History pointing out the need for revising the criteria of valuation of this phenomenology in order to assess it in modern conceptual terms. As a consequence Ammianus’
Rosalia Marino
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Nuova Antologia Militare, 2021 One of the worst military disasters in the Roman history was the Battle of Cannae (216 BCE) which occurred in the Second Punic War. The battle left such an impact with its trauma that any military defeat in the following centuries was comparable to ...
Keenan Baca-Winters
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The Onager, according to Ammianus Marcellinus: A critical reconstruction
Nuova Antologia Militare, 2021 The onager was a special Late-Roman one-armed stone-thrower and totally different from the existing and more common two-armed artillery of that era, the ballistae and catapultae. The name ‘onager’ appeared in Ancient texts of the 4th C.A.D.
Marc Cherretté
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„Okropne choroby” panoszące się wśród Rzymian w ujęciu Ammiana Marcellina
Przegląd Nauk Historycznych, 2023 Opisywanie chorób nie było celem Ammiana Marcellina. Wspominał o nich wtedy, kiedy wymagała tego narracja i przedstawiane przez niego wydarzenia. Nie traktował ich instrumentalnie.
Sławomir Bralewski
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BEYOND THE DIGRESSION: AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS ON THE PERSIANS
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2016 Ammianus Marcellinus’ information and knowledge of the Sasanian Persians is often criticised for being stereotypical and reliant on traditional tropes and ideas.
Craig Morley
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‘La chiamiamo con entrambi i nomi’: eponimia ed eteronimia tra Nemesis e Adrasteia
Mythos, 2020 Starting from a passage by Ammianus Marcellinus (XIV 11,25), which reveals an overlapping between Adrasteia and Nemesis, the contribution aims at examining the reasons that led the two goddess to be indicated one as the heteronym of the other.
Daniela Bonanno
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Place of the “Account of the Huns” in Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae
Античная древность и средние века, 2023 The analysis of the so-called “account of the Huns” in the late-fourth-century fundamental history Res Gestae should start from the understanding of the entirety of the source, permeated with the single historiographic concept, where the author’s ...
Aleksandr Sergeevich Kozlov
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Fear and Anxiety before Barbarians. Ammianus Marcellinus and the Persians
Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2018 From the First Roman-Parthian War to the Battle of Nineveh, Rome and Persia fought each other at the East for nearly seven hundred years. It is well known how Roman writers perpetuated ancient stereotypes which represented the Persians as inferior ...
Gabriel SANZ CASASNOVAS
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Algunos problemas en torno al obispo Euzoio de Antioquía
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2000 Este artículo estudia algunas cuestiones relativas al obispo Euzoio de Antioquia. Las fuentes son Atanasio de Alejandría, Sócrates, Sozomeno, Filostorgio, Teodoreto de Ciro, el Código Teodosiano, Epifanía de Salamina y Ammiano Marcelino.
Gonzalo Fernández
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