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Ammianus Marcellinus

Abstract Ammianus Marcellinus, a Syrian Greek from Antioch, was the last great historian of the Roman Empire to write in Latin. He likely composed his history (the extant portion of which covers the years 353–78 ce) in Rome. After considering how Ammianus could be considered a universal historian, this chapter examines how he ...
Ronald Mellor, Jason Moralee
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Some Pictures in Ammianus Marcellinus

Art Bulletin, 1964
Readers of Ammianus are struck by the pattern which certain scenes of greeting follow (21. 10, 1, etc.), in an author who tries so hard to avoid pattern and repetition: a personage approaches a city; the populace streams out to receive him with torches and flowers; troops and senators cluster around; there are shouts hailing his presence and virtues ...
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Ammianus Marcellinus

Journal of Roman Studies, 1920
Ammianus Marcellinus has in this country long suffered undue and unfortunate neglect. No edition of him, so far as I know, has ever been produced in England. A translation executed between thirty and forty years ago by the late Professor C. D. Yonge, for Bohn's Classical Library, is, I think, not now readily accessible. Mr. Fisher, before he was called
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