Amongst the histories of the fourth century -- Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, Festus, Jerome's Chronici canones, the Historia Augusta, the Epitome de Caesaribus, and, in places, even
Ammianus Marcellinus and perhaps the Origo Constantini imperatoris (Anonymi Valesiani pars prior) - there is a common selection of facts and errors, and common wording and phrasing in their narratives between Augustus and the death of Constantine, especially in their accounts of the third century.
A few scholars, following the great Theodor Mommsen, have hypothesized that Jordanes discovered this story in the fourth-century historian
Ammianus Marcellinus. (62) The first thirteen books of Ammianus's Res Gestae, covering the years 96-353, are lost.
Thus, the military tactics of the Arabs, the one of quick raids on horseback, which had already been reported by
Ammianus Marcellinus in the late fourth century, required creating an army in the Frankish kingdom that would be able to fight on the horseback (
AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS 1999, Lib.
To give an idea about the extermination of Greek pagans, I quote from the 17th Volume of Res Gestae Libri XXXI, which covers the 4th century AD, by the famous Roman historian
Ammianus Marcellinus: "The bishop of Alexandria Georgios and his gang went through the streets of Alexandria cutting up people and setting fire to everything.
Others who offered to take part in a symposium were Dr Lubbe on the future task of teachers of the Classics, Mr Thorpe on the history of Lugdunum and Dr Naude on the influence of
Ammianus Marcellinus on Gibbon's causes for the Decline and Fall.
On the wall at the museum you will see these words "The Fairest City of the Orient"
Ammianus Marcellinus, XXIII, which says everything about how things were in Antakya.
These 'proto-face-of-battle' narrators are
Ammianus Marcellinus, who narrates a siege of the Mesopotamian fortress, Amida, in 359 by the Persian king Sapor, and a group of authors who describe a siege of the same city, Amida, in 502-3 by a later Persian king, Kavad.
Brown's false perspective of the middle decades of the fourth century becomes most evident in his comments on a passage in which the historian
Ammianus Marcellinus makes a disparaging reference to beggars on the Vatican.
Claudianus, Lactanctius, Jerome,
Ammianus Marcellinus, Basil, and Chrysostom all denounced the moral decadence of fourth-century society at large.
Tacitus was a model historian for all the Roman historiographers, including
Ammianus Marcellinus. However, Tacitus was a genius.
In addition, those people thought that it would not be the end of Rome (Clavdian), and they thought that Rome would last gaining victory (
Ammianus Marcellinus).
