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The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus, During the Reign of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens

The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus, During the Reign of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens

C D Yonge

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Literary CriticismAnthropologyAncient Greece

ISBN10: 9353605571
ISBN13: 9789353605575
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 690
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Power shifts. Frontiers burn. In The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus, a veteran officer of the legions records the turbulent age of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian, and Valens from the inside. History turns on these pages. Rendered here in C. D. Yonge's clear, vigorous English, this authoritative late Roman history translation follows the empire through palace intrigues, frontier crises, and hard-fought Roman military campaigns history, from the eastern wars to the Gothic menace on the Danube. As a Roman primary source text for late fourth century Rome, Ammianus probes late Roman Empire politics, battlefield realities, and the characters of fourth century Roman emperors with unsparing clarity, in a narrative that echoes the moral intensity of Roman historians like Tacitus. Overshadowed for centuries yet revered by Edward Gibbon, whose monumental history of the Roman Empire drew deeply on this narrative, Ammianus stands as the last great Latin historian of antiquity and a classic work of antiquity in its own right. His chronicle of the Roman Empire under Valens and his predecessors is indispensable for Roman history students and a precise research tool for historians, illuminating religion, administration, and war at the empire's breaking point. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this classic is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, designed equally for serious study and for the shelves of discerning lovers of historical literature.

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