AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS

ămēāˈnəs märsĭlīˈnəs, c.330–c.400, Roman historian, b. Antioch. After retiring from a successful military career, he wrote a history of the Roman Empire as a sequel to that of Tacitus, his model. The history, in 31 books, covered the years from a.d. 96 to 378; only Books XIV–XXXI, covering the years a.d. 353–78, survive. Though written in an extremely rhetorical style, this reliable and impartial history is praised not only for its coverage of military events, but for detailed information concerning economic, administrative, and social history, biographical information about the various emperors, and tolerant descriptions of foreign cultures. Although a pagan and an admirer of Julian the Apostate, Ammianus was able to write about Christianity without prejudice.

See E. A. Thompson, Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (1947); Ammianus Marcellinus (his work tr. by J. C. Rolfe 1935, repr. 1963); R. Syme, Ammianus and the Historia Augusta (1968).

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The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus
Book by Jan Willem Drijvers, David Hunt; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Ammianus Marcellinus--Rerum Gestarum Libri, Emperors--Rome--Biography--History And Criticism, Greeks--Rome--Biography, Historians--Rome--Biography, Rome--History--Empire, 284-476--Historiography
...W.Fornara, Studies in Ammianus Marcellinus II: Ammianus Knowledge and...244 50, and Barnes, Ammianus Marcellinus and his World. On Ammianus...Taciteisches im Werk des Ammianus Marcellinus, Munich 1991. 34 C.W...
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Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period : 330 B.C.-A.D. 400
Book by Stanley E. Porter; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Criticism--Greece--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Greek Literature, Hellenistic--History And Criticism--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Rhetoric, Ancient--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...Official Phraseology in Ammianus Marcellinus , ArctosSup. 2 (1985...Momigliano, The Lonely Historian Ammianus Marcellinus , ASNP 4 (1974), pp...Taciteisches im Werk des Ammianus Marcellinus (Munich 1987); S. M...
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The Historians of Late Antiquity
Book by David Rohrbacher; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Emperors--Rome--Biography--History And Criticism, Historians--Rome--Biography, Historiography--Rome, Rome--History--Empire, 284-476--Historiography, Rome--History--Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th Centuries--Historiography
...Clark. Crump, G.A. 1975 Ammianus Marcellinus as a Military Historian...Corn and Corn-Prices in Ammianus Marcellinus, Mnemosyne 4:238-45...The Historographic Art of Ammianus Marcellinus, Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands...
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Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Book by Guy Halsall; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: Aliens In Literature, Civilization, Medieval--Humor, Classical Wit And Humor, Europe--History--476-1492, Europe--Social Conditions--To 1492, Laughter In Literature
...level of a barbarian. 18 Ammianus Marcellinus, writing at the end of the...and beasts: barbarians in Ammianus Marcellinus, in Past Perspectives...see R. C. Blockley, Ammianus Marcellinus: A Study of his Historiography...
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The Early Christian World - Vol. 2
Book by Philip F. Esler; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Church History--Early Church, Ca. 30-600
...and Smith (1995). 29 Ammianus Marcellinus 22.12.7 and 22.13...standard references. 30 Ammianus Marcellinus 22.13.1 says the fire...murdered by a mob in 361 CE. 35 Ammianus Marcellinus 23.5.10-11 relates...
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Aegyptus Redacta: the Egyptian Obelisk in the Augustan Campus Martius
Journal article by Molly Swetnam-Burland; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 92, 2010
...fourth century CE by Ammianus Marcellinus, place greatest emphasis...Centuries later. Amniianus Marcellinus wrote his own history...imported Roman obelisks. Ammianus also demonstrates a...of little concern to Ammianus. he emphasizes that...
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The Monument, Or, Christopher Wren's Roman Accent
Journal article by John E. Moore; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 80, 1998
Subjects: Art criticism, Fires, London England, Memorials & monuments, Wren, Christopher S
...late fourth-century writer Ammianus Marcellinus-and not just the surviving...ideologically different use.185 Ammianus Marcellinus first mentions the obelisk...funerary urn. From reading Ammianus Marcellinus, Wren devised a spherical...
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Babylon and Anglo-Saxon England
Journal article by Andrew P. Scheil; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 36, 2003
...astronomy and, through it, the art of divination. Ammianus Marcellinus provides a good representative example: "His...Commentary. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. Ammianus Marcellinus. Rerum Gestarum Libri. Loeb Classics Series...
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The Saracen as Narrative Knot
Journal article by Jacqueline de Weever; Arthuriana, Vol. 16, 2006
Subjects: Arabs, Middle Ages, Muslims, Nomads, Roman civilization, Romance literature, Writers
...the Syrian borders of the Empire. The historian Ammianus Marcellinus (born c. 330 CE in Antioch) places the Saraceni...Gratianus Valentinus II (359-83 CE), recorded by Ammianus Marcellinus, portrays a Saracen as a wild man. The Romans...
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Yamato-Takeru: An 'Arthurian' Hero in Japanese Tradition
Journal article by C. Scott Littleton; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 54, 1995
Subjects: Arthur, King of the Britons--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Central Asia--Folklore, legends, etc., Folklore--Structural analysis, Heroes--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Iran--Folklore, legends, etc., Japan--Folklore, legends, etc., Yamato-takeru (Japanese mythology)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...of worshipping swords thrust in the earth (Cf. Ammianus Marcellinus 31.4.22 ROLFE 1939, 395). Although there...35: 15-29. ROLFE, John Carew, trans. 1939 Ammianus Marcellinus. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ROTHSTEIN...
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Rome's Dark Night of Tyranny: When the Republic Fell, Rome Entered the Dark Decline of Empire. Only after Centuries of Misery under Predominantly Tyrannical Emperors Did Rome Finally Meet Its End
Magazine article by Steve Bonta; The New American, Vol. 21, February 7, 2005
Subjects: Roman culture--Analysis, Roman culture--History
...lava from Etna," in the words of Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus--and set up encampments in Thrace. The occupying...decision of a weak and foolish emperor, and what Ammianus mournfully called the "tumultuous eagerness of those...
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Blaming the Barbarians
Magazine article by Michael Parenti; The Humanist, Vol. 58, May-June 1998
Subjects: Barbarian invasions of Rome--History, Civilization, Western--History, Western culture--History
...the twenty-eight public libraries in Rome "like tombs, were closed forever," as Cahill quotes the lamenting Ammianus Marcellinus--whom he fails to identify as a non-Christian historian. Again, the impression left is that the barbarians...
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
Magazine article by Dirk Bennett; History Today, Vol. 47, December 1997
Subjects: Chariots--History, Greece--Athletics, Harness racing--History, Horse-racing--History
...rush headlong for a place on the terraces at such a speed that they could almost beat the chariots themselves. (Ammianus Marcellinus, XXVIII, iv28) However, as we have seen these were not simply disorganised masses. The factions were much...
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Celebrations
Magazine article by Andre Bernard; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Winter 2007
...did not nod, and at no point was he seen to spit or to wipe or rub his face or nose or to move his hand. --AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS Roman History, XVI. 10 I watched 715 go over the fence while sitting back in the left-field corner. I had...
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The New Anti-Semitism: First Religion, Then Race, Then What?
Magazine article by Bernard Lewis; American Scholar, Vol. 75, Winter 2006
Subjects: Antisemitism--Evaluation, Zionism--Evaluation
...other peoples, and on the whole the ones against Jews are not the most vicious. The Syrian-born Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, for example, speaking of the Saracens, remarks that they are not to be desired either as friends or as enemies...
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It's Genghis 1 -- Attila 0; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 11, 2011
...would strike fear in the enemy by tying severed enemies heads and skulls to his mens saddles. Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, writing at the end of the 4th century, described the Huns guerrilla tactics: Going into the fight in order...
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It's Genghis 1 -- Attila 0; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 11, 2011
...would strike fear in the enemy by tying severed enemies heads and skulls to his mens saddles. Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, writing at the end of the 4th century, described the Huns guerrilla tactics: Going into the fight in order...
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It's Genghis 1 -- Attila 0; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 11, 2011
...would strike fear in the enemy by tying severed enemies heads and skulls to his mens saddles. Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, writing at the end of the 4th century, described the huns guerrilla tactics: going into the fight in order...
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Forget All the Celtic Origin Whitewash
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 25, 2008
...Timagenes: They (the Celts) were driven from their homes bythe frequency of war and the violent rising of the sea. Ammianus Marcellinus:(The Celts) had come in from the outermost isles and the regions beyond theRhine. So thats it then, Celtic...
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Will the Sphinx at Last Reveal Its Deep Secrets; DAY TWO OF A REMARKABLE SERIES WHICH REVEALS THAT THE GREAT PYRAMIDS COULD HOLD THE KEY TO A LOST CIVILISATION
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 3, 1996
...lost civilisation. In the fourth century AD, no doubt picking up on such ancient beliefs, the Roman general Ammianus Marcellinus directed treasure-hunters to search for `certain underground galleries in the Pyramids, constructed as repositories...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ammianus Marcellinus  - 4 results

 
 
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Ammianus Marcellinus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS amea n s marsili n s, c.330 c.400, Roman historian...prejudice. See E. A. Thompson, Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (1947); Ammianus Marcellinus (his work tr. by J. C. Rolfe 1935, repr. 1963...
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Marcellinus Ammianus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARCELLINUS AMMIANUS see Ammianus Marcellinus . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Latin Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...themes to deal with everyday life and the world of nature. Claudian is considered the best of the late poets. Ammianus Marcellinus was a noted historian. The philological scholars of the empire were numerous. These included Aulus Gellius...
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Holland, Philemon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was the first English translator of Livy and Septonius, of Plutarchs Morals and Plinys Natural History, and of Ammianus Marcellinus. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of...


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