Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]
, 2012 This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti
Wojnowski, Michał
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La imagen de Barbación en las "Res Gestae" de Amiano Marcelino1 [PDF]
, 2016 This article analyzes the depiction of magister peditum Barbatio in Res Gestae (RG) by Ammianus Marcellinus. The historian offers an image of Barbatio as an shameful figure: sentenced to death for his betrayal of the Caesar Gallus; coward and arrogant ...
Garcia Ruiz, Mª del Pilar
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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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The Hersfeldensis and the Fuldensis of Ammianus Marcellinus:A reconsideration [PDF]
, 2016 The only two authoritative manuscripts of Ammianus Marcellinus to survive to the present day were produced in Germany in the first half of the ninth century: Vaticanus Latinus 1873 from Fulda (V), and a fragmentary manuscript from Hersfeld now preserved ...
Kelly, Gavin, Stover, Justin
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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.This articte ...
Gonzalo Fernández
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Ammianus and some Tribuni Scholarum Palatinarum c. A.D. 353-364 [PDF]
, 2010 The Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus is a major source of our knowledge of the late Roman army. However, although himself a former army officer, it was not the intention of Ammianus to explain the institutions and organization of the late Roman army to
Woods, David
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Autorzy pogańscy o chrześcijaństwie (Galen, Ammianus Marcellinus)
Vox Patrum, 1986 ...
Andrzej Bober
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The Migration History of the Savirs
Журнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2023 The history of the Chuvash people during ancient times and the early Middle Ages is still not well-known or thoroughly understood. The Bulgars were most often named as the historical ancestors of the Chuvash in research from the 18th to the 20th ...
Anton K. Salmin
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Orientals in Late Antique Italy: Some Observations
Electrum, 2022 Some evidence points at the presence of Orientals in late Roman Italy: traders (labelled “Syrians”), petty sellers (the pantapolae in Nov. Val.
Giusto Traina
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REVIEW to: Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz, Beginning and End: From Ammianus Marcellinus to Eusebius of Caesarea, Anejo VII de Exemplaria Classica, Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2016 (ISBN 978-84-16872-02-2) [PDF]
Talia dixit, 2017 BEGINNING AND END, FROM DUSK TO DAWN ... The beginnings of the Christian historiographical genre and the end of pagan historiography, both symbolized in two personalities that, one from Christianity and one from paganism, live and write history in Latin ...
María Luisa Harto Trujillo
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