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Ammianus Marcellinus from Soldier to Author

Object category:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Hanaghan, Michael
Woods, David
Publisher:
BRILL
Place of publication:
Boston
Date:
2022
Extent, illustration, format:
1 online resource (432 pages)
Language:
Englisch
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Ammianus' Text -- 1 Why We Need a New Edition of Ammianus Marcellinus -- Part 2 Ammianus' Military Experience -- 2 Ammianus and the dignitas protectoris -- 3 Simplicitas militaris: Ammianus Marcellinus and sermo castrensis -- 4 Ammianus' Identification of Named Legions and Its Literary Significance -- 5 Religionibus firmis iuramenta constricta? Ammianus and the sacramentum militiae -- 6 Ammianus on Mallobaudes and Magnus Maximus: A Response to Theodosian Discourse? -- Part 3 Ammianus' Literary Aims and Models -- 7 The Face of Convention: Battle and Siege Description in Ammianus Marcellinus -- 8 The Literary Function of Ammianus' Criticisms of Military luxuria -- 9 Coturni terribilis fabula (Amm. Marc. 28.6.29): The Goddess of Justice and the Death of Theodosius the Elder -- 10 Ille ut fax uel incensus malleolus: Ammianus and His Swift Narration of Julian's Balkan Itinerary in 361 CE -- 11 The Depiction of the Common Soldier (miles) in Ammianus and Tacitus and the Intertextual Background of the Res gestae -- 12 Xenophon and Ammianus: Two Soldier-Historians and Their Persian Expeditions -- Index of Names -- Index of Ancient Sources.
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Created:
2023-04-12
Last changed:
2022-12-16
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2023-04-12