Philological and Historical Commentary on
Ammianus Marcellinus XXXI
Ross 2014 also argues convincingly that Heliodorus' account of the siege of Syene makes use of the 'face of battle' style of describing sieges in fourth-century historiography, as can be seen in the narrative of the siege of Amida in
Ammianus Marcellinus 18.
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.
Den Boeft, Drijvers, den Hengst, and Teitler offer this commentary on the twenty-ninth book of the Roman history written by
Ammianus Marcellinus.
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.
There are exceptions to this rule here (Thucydides, Caesar,
Ammianus Marcellinus, Snorri Sturluson, Lord Acton, Roy Jenkins, Winston Churchill, and others), but history in the main is the work of those who do not make it, and in the case of both William and Orderic, their particular margin equipped them in very special ways to reflect on the past, to read the vast Latin writings on and about the past and then to couch their own writings in a language all intellectuals could and would want to read, and which has lasted down to our own day, while encouraging the greatest of our historians and people of letters to translate and copiously annotate it.
Tacitus was a model historian for all the Roman historiographers, including
Ammianus Marcellinus.
suffuscus (subfuscus) bei Tacitus, dann sogar suffucusculus bei Apuleius und
Ammianus Marcellinus.
In the 380s the pagan
Ammianus Marcellinus noted that the Roman bishops' lifestyle had escalated, "wearing clothing chosen with care, and serving banquets so lavish that their entertainments outdo the tables of kings.
For example, an inquiry into migration during the first millennium is linked to a broader discussion of world systems with primary source excerpts from
Ammianus Marcellinus and Bede as well as secondary source excerpts from Romila Thapar, Michael Coe, Christopher Ehret, and Lester Little.
