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The Counterfeit and Fake Emperor - Procopius in the Res Gestae of Ammanius Marcelinus

Classica Cracoviensia, 2015
The Counterfeit and Fake Emperor - Procopius in the Res Gestae of Ammanius Marcelinus The article discusses Procopius’ usurpation which took place in 365-366 AD. Ammianus in his Res gestae deals not only with the historical details of this event, but
Anna Mleczek
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Deconstructing the symbolic city:Jerome as guide to late antique Rome [PDF]

, 2012
This article considers the writings of Saint Jerome as a source for writing a cultural history of the city of Rome in late antiquity. Jerome is of course, in many respects, an unreliable witness but his lively and often conflicted accounts of the city do
Grig, Lucy
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LES ETHNONYMES DANS LES HISTOIRES D’AMMIEN MARCELLIN [PDF]

Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2013
This paper analyzes the role of ethnonyms in Ammianus Marcellinus’ Roman History . On the one hand, the different ways of naming ‘the other’ represent a literary device used by the historian in order to classify people from outside the Roman border ...
Elena Emilia ȘTEFAN
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Frontier Army of the Late Roman Empire in the Mid-4th c. A.D. (Case of Isauria and the Rhine Frontier): on the Ways of Territorial Deployment of Military Units

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2021
Introduction. During the whole 4th c. the Late Roman frontier military units constantly took part in military campaigns against different enemies of the Empire, hovewer the author of this paper asks the question how precisely frontier military ...
Evgeniy Mekhamadiev
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BEES AND VULTURES: EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS IN AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS

Classical Quarterly, 2020
In his Res Gestae, the historian Ammianus Marcellinus describes the Egyptian city of Thebes and the obelisks that can be found there. There is an unusual passage in which he describes hieroglyphic writings.
F. Foster
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Donner à voir le passage de la montagne de Gaule par les mots ou par l’image : héritages et acquis des géographes, voyageurs et cartographes sur l’itinéraire du col du Montgenèvre

Belgeo, 2014
Most authors, travelers or not, often conform to tradition and show cognitive schemas and sometimes outdated or stereotyped. We must distinguish those who attempted to reflect a seen and updated reality, in particular Ammianus Marcellinus about ...
Delphine Acolat
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The ends of history? Jerome, Geruchia, and the Rhine crossings

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 71-93, February 2025.
This article revisits Jerome’s treatment of the Rhine crossings of 406 in his letter to the widow Geruchia, and the broader issue of breaching the Roman limes. It argues that his description of the events in Gaul and on the border was framed to fit his notion of the history of salvation.
Mateusz Fafinski
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IN MEMORIAM: HULDEBLYK AAN PROF C P T NAUDÉ (17.08.1912 - 10.08.2001)

Akroterion, 2012
Professor Naude is vanjaar op 10 Augustus oorlede - een week voordat hy sy nege-en-tagtigste verjaarsdag sou gevier het.<br /> Hy het ‘n soliede loopbaan as klassikus gehad, eers as student en toe as dosent aan Wits; in 1955 promoveer hy onder prof
D.M. Kriel
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Этнические перемещения в западных провинциях поздней Римской империи в IV в.: к вопросу об истории некоторых войсковых подразделений / Ethnic movements in the western provinces of the late Roman Empire in the 4th century: on the history of certain military units

Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2020
During the 4th century a central government of the Later Roman Empire usually attracted different external tribes to Roman military service, with respect to Western provinces this policy inevitably was applied to German tribes, which lived at the Roman ...
Mekhamadiev E.A.
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.
This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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