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448:) was originally composed of thirty-one books, but the first thirteen have been lost. The surviving eighteen books, covering the period from 353 to 378, constitute the foundation of modern understanding of the history of the fourth century Roman Empire. They are lauded as a clear, comprehensive, and generally impartial account of events by a contemporary; like many ancient historians, however, Ammianus was in fact not impartial, although he expresses an intention to be so, and had strong moral and religious prejudices. Although criticised as lacking literary merit by his early biographers, he was in fact quite skilled in rhetoric, which significantly has brought the veracity of some of the 189: 1681: 410: 274: 582:
based on the assumption that Ammianus was the recipient of a letter from a pagan contemporary, Libanius, to a certain Marcellinus; however Formara in 1992 argued that this letter must have referred in fact to a younger man and an orator newly arrived in Rome, rather than Ammianus, who had long been a
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judged Ammianus "an accurate and faithful guide, who composed the history of his own times without indulging the prejudices and passions which usually affect the mind of a contemporary." But he also condemned Ammianus for lack of literary flair: "The coarse and undistinguishing pencil of Ammianus has
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Ammianus was not blind to the faults of Christians or of pagans and was especially critical of them; he commented that "no wild beasts are so hostile to men as Christian sects in general are to one another" and he condemns the emperor Julian for excessive attachment to (pagan) sacrifice, and for his
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in the retinue of Ursinicus, who was on a mission to make sure the bridges across the Euphrates were demolished. They were attacked by the Persian vanguard, who had made a night march in an attempt to catch the Romans at Amida unprepared. After a protracted cavalry battle, the Romans were scattered;
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by Georg Sachsel and Bartholomaeus Golsch, which broke off at the end of Book 26. The next edition (Bologna, 1517) suffered from its editor's conjectures upon the poor text of the 1474 edition; the 1474 edition was pirated for the first Froben edition (Basle, 1518). It was not until 1533 that the
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Modern scholarship generally describes Ammianus as a pagan who was tolerant of Christianity. Marcellinus writes of Christianity as being a "plain and simple" religion that demands only what is just and mild, and when he condemns the actions of Christians, he does not do so on the basis of their
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has led modern scholarship to suggest that he continued his service but did not for some reason include the period in his history. He accompanied Julian, for whom he expresses enthusiastic admiration, in his campaigns against the
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himself. Ammianus returned with his commander to the East and again served Ursicinus as a staff officer. Ursicinus, although he was the more experienced commander, was placed under the command of Sabinianus, the
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Greek), he was most likely born in a Greek-speaking area of the empire. His native language is unknown but he likely knew Greek as well as Latin. The surviving books of his history cover the years 353 to 378.
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by divination. Speaking as an alleged eyewitness, Marcellinus recounts how Theodorus and several others were made to confess their deceit through the use of torture, and cruelly punished.
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Christianity as such. His lifetime was marked by lengthy outbreaks of sectarian and dogmatic strife within the new state-backed faith, often with violent consequences (especially the
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His work has suffered substantially from manuscript transmission. Aside from the loss of the first thirteen books, the remaining eighteen are in many places corrupt and
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When Ursicinus was dismissed from his military post by Constantius, Ammianus too seems to have retired from the military; however, reevaluation of his participation in
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resident in the city, and Barnes solidified this stance in modern scholarship. However, many scholars remain convinced that Ammianus was a native of Antioch.
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Marcos, Moyses (2015). "A Tale of Two Commanders: Ammianus Marcellinus on the Campaigns of Constantius II and Julian on the Northern Frontiers".
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Historian T. D. Barnes argues that the original was actually thirty-six books, which if correct would mean that eighteen books have been lost.
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Ursicinus evaded capture and fled to Melitene, while Ammianus made a difficult journey back to Amida with a wounded comrade. The Persians
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of the same family name. He entered the army at an early age, when Constantius II was emperor of the East, and was sent to serve under
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in Egypt as the glory of the empire, so his work was presumably completed before the destruction of that building in 391.
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In 359, Constantius sent Ursicinus back to the east to help in the defence against a Persian invasion led by king
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which was taken apart to provide covers for account-books during the fifteenth century. Only six leaves of
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While living in Rome in the 380s, Ammianus wrote a Latin history of the Roman empire from the accession of
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Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)
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from an insular exemplar. The only independent textual source for Ammianus lies in Fragmenta Marbugensia (
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survive; however, before this manuscript was dismantled the Abbot of Hersfeld lent the manuscript to
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East and West Through Fifteen Centuries: Being a General History from B.C. 44 to A.D. 1453
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last five books of Ammianus' history were put into print by Silvanus Otmar and edited by
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Tougher, S. (2000). "Ammianus Marcellinus on the Empress Eusebia: A Split Personality".
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delineated his bloody figures with tedious and disgusting accuracy." Austrian historian
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of the east. The two did not get along, resulting in a lack of cooperation between the
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praised Ammianus as "the greatest literary genius that the world produced between
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Roth, Roman (2010). "Pyrrhic paradigms: Ennius, Livy, and Ammianus Marcellinus".
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of 359. Ammianus himself was present in the city until a day before its fall.
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Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity: Fourth to Sixth century AD
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Hunt, E.D. (1985). "Christians and Christianity in Ammianus Marcellinus".
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in English at the Tertullian Project with introduction on the manuscripts
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Sabbah, Guy (2003). "Ammianus Marcellinus". In Marasco, Gabriele (ed.).
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and eventually sacked Amida, and Ammianus barely escaped with his life.
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Ammianus Marcellinus: An Annotated Bibliography, 1474 to the Present
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in 378. Only the sections covering the period 353 to 378 survive.
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who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from
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was thought to have been identified the successor to the emperor
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After his mission in Corduene, Ammianus left the headquarters at
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Ammianus Marcellinus, soldier-historian of the late Roman Empire
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Ammianus Marcellinus: Seven Studies in His Language and Thought
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His handling from his earliest printers was little better. The
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Title page to the 1533 editio princeps of books XXVII–XXXI of
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He travelled with Ursicinus to Italy in an expedition against
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Following earlier scholars, Matthews suggested a hometown of
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edict effectively barring Christians from teaching posts.
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Ammianus served as an officer in the army of the emperors
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Ammianus was born in the East Mediterranean, possibly in
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Works by Ammianus Marcellinus at Perseus Digital Library
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Crump, Gary A.; Nicols, John; Kebric, Robert B. (1975).
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Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics
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Ammianus' work contains a detailed description of the
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Index

Ammianus
Roman Syria
Amioun
Lebanon
anglicised
Greek
Roman soldier
historian
antiquity
Procopius
history of Rome
Nerva
Valens
Battle of Adrianople

Constantius II
Syria
Phoenicia
Greek
Constantius II
Julian
protectores domestici
curial family
comes Orientis
Ursicinus
Nisibis
Mesopotamia
magister militum

Amida

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