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Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI

Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI

Den Boeft, Jan
Drijvers, Jan Willem
Den Hengst, Daniël

Hardcover

Series: Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellin, Book 7

Literary CriticismAncient RomeGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 9004163468
ISBN13: 9789004163461
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Published: Dec 26 2007
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.75 Depth: 9.65
Language: English
Book 26 of Ammianus' Res Gestae is the first of the hexad which deals with the rule of the emperors Valentinian and Valens (364-378). In the first five chapters Ammianus describes the election of Valentinian, who appointed his brother Valens as his co-ruler, and subsequently divided the empire into an eastern and a western part. The next chapters deal with the revolt of Procopius. They offer the most detailed account of a coup d' état in Roman historiography. The memory of Julian, whose death was the central theme of the preceding book, is still very much alive. None of the three protagonists of Book 26 was remotely his equal. His loss meant a turn for the worse in the history of Rome.

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