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	Ammianus Marcellinus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ammianus Marcellinus (325/330-after 391) was a Roman historian who wrote during Late Antiquity.
		Ammianus was a pagan, and some have said that he marginalises Christianity repeatedly in his account.
		It is a striking fact that Ammianus, though a professional soldier, gives excellent pictures of social and economic problems, and in his attitude to the non-Roman peoples of the empire he is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus; his digressions on the various countries he had visited are particularly interesting.
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	Peterhouse: Dr Gavin Kelly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ammianus idealises and further aggrandises Rome into a Vergilian imperium sine fine, "Rome destined to live as long as there are men." The traditions of Classical history are used to reinforce this sense of grandeur of scale, both spatial and temporal.
		I argue that Ammianus' command of the traditions of historiography is such that such this treatment cannot be seen as the inevitable result of his genre, but as a deliberate choice.
		Ammianus repeatedly emphasises the limits of contemporary historiography when praising its loftiness, and prepares us in a number of places for the suggestion of his final words that the current regime cannot be truthfully described: the rest was panegyric.
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	Amazon.ca: The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378): Books: Marcellinus Ammianus,William Hamilton,Hadrill Wallace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ammianus Marcellinus handles the vicissitudes of the later Roman Empire with an eloquence and timeless lore that matches that of his predecessors Livy, Suetonius, and Tacitus.
		Ammianus was a Greek by descent yet born in Syria, and later became somewhat of an influence in the Roman military.
		Marcellinus' account is not for the faint of heart and it is readily apparent that his world was a very violent place, between foreign wars and civil strife.
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	Ammianus Marcellinus on the Geography of the Pontus Euxinus
		Ammianus Marcellinus on the Geography of the Pontus Euxinus
		Ammianus Marcellinus on the Geography of the Pontus Euxinus [1]
		Ammianus' geographical ignorance and mistakes seem all the more surprising since he had indicated in the introduction to the digression (22.8.1) that he would give an accurate description of the topography of the Black Sea based on his own observation and on what he had read (visa vel lecta).
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	Ammianus Marcellinus
		He accompanied this emperor, for whom he expresses enthusiastic admiration, in his campaigns against the Alamanni and the Persians; after his death he took part in the retreat of Jovian as far as Antioch, where he was residing when the conspiracy of Theodoras (371) was discovered and cruelly put down.
		"Ammianus is an accurate and faithful guide, who composed the history of his own times without indulging the prejudices and passions which usually affect the mind of a contemporary" (Edward Gibbon).
		It is a striking fact that Ammianus, though a professional soldier, gives excellent pictures of social and economic problems, and in his attitude to the non-Roman peoples of the empire he is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus; his digressions on the various countries he had visited are peculiarly interesting.
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	Ammianus Marcellinus Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ammianus Marcellinus, thought by some to be the last Roman historian of worth, was born about A.D. 325-330 likely at Antioch (the likelihood hingeing on whether he was the recipient of a surviving letter to a Marcellinus from a fellow citizen of Antioch).
		He accompanied this emperor, for whom he expresses enthusiastic admiration, in his campaigns against the Alamanni and the Persians; after his death he took part in the retreat of Jovian as far as Antioch, where he was residing when the conspiracy of Theodorus (371) was discovered and cruelly put down.
		In his description of the empire--the exhaustion produced by excessive taxation, the financial ruin of the middle classes, the progressive decline in the morale of the army--we find the explanation of its fall before the Goths twenty years after his death.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Ammianus_Marcellinus.html (610 words)


		Zonaras, Ammianus Marcellinus and John of Antioch on the reigns of the emperors Constantius II and Julian.
		Ammianus and the eternity of Rome, in The inheritance of historiography 350-900, edd.
		Ammianus' definition of Christianity as absoluta et simplex religio, in Cognitio gestorum: the historiographic art of Ammianus Marcellinus, ed.
	www.uvm.edu /~bsaylor/rome/ammianus.html (932 words)

	Ammianus Marcellinus
		Ammianus became a member of the protectores domestici (the imperial bodyguard after the disbanding of the praetorian guard) at only 20 years of age.
		As Ammianus fails to return to the cause of these troubles, or how soon they were resolved, we are kept in the dark as to the severity of the events.
		Though Ammianus mentions several peoples, and the word ‘concerted’ suggests an attack by more than one enemy, this is by no means proof of a ‘conspiracy’, which would involve a level of cooperation that never before, nor afterwards, seems to have been possible among the enemies of Britain.
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	The Siege of Amida in 359 by Ammianus Marecllinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Siege of Amida in 359 by Ammianus Marecllinus
		Ammianus Marcellinus was an army officer of Greek origin who left a history of the wars and conflicts that beset the Roman Empire in the latter half of the fourth century.
		This section begins with Ammianus, an officer under the command of the General Ursicinus, on his way to the city of Samosata after hearing reports of enemy movements.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/sources/ammianus.htm (3049 words)

	Biography -- The Ammianus Marcellinus Online Project
		According to the traditional view the letter was adressed to (our) Ammianus Marcellinus; hence Ammianus is considered to be a native of Antioch.
		Some time before 353, when Ammianus was in his twenties, he joined the army and was made protector domesticus attached to the staff of Ursicinus, the master of the cavalry in the East.
		So Ammianus probably belonged to a family of high, probably, curial rank, since he was too young to have built up a glorious military career and get promoted to the position he held.
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	Ammianus Marcellinus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS [Ammianus Marcellinus], c.330-c.400, Roman historian, b.
		Though written in an extremely rhetorical style, this reliable and impartial history is praised not only for its coverage of military events, but for detailed information concerning economic, administrative, and social history, biographical information about the various emperors, and tolerant descriptions of foreign cultures.
		Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality.(Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ammianus.html (299 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Ammianus Marcellinus: The Battle of Hadrianopolis, 378 CE
		The Battle of Hadrianopolis, 378 CE At this time Valens was disturbed by a twofold anxiety, having learned that the people of Lintz had been defeated, and also because Sebastian, in the letters which he sent from time to time, exaggerated what had taken place by his pompous language.
		And far off were heard the miserable wailing of those who were left behind--the sobs of the dying, and the agonizing groans of the wounded.
		Ammianus Marcellinus, The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of The Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens, trans.
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	Ammianus Marcellinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The last great historian to write in Latin, Ammianus Marcellinus was born in Syrian Antioch c.330 CE.
		Ancient History Sourcebook: Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-395 CE): History, XIV.16: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome, c.400 CE.
		Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, Vol 56) by Timothy David Barnes
	www.forumromanum.org /literature/ammianus_bio.html (247 words)

	Ammianus Marcellinus
		Der spätantike Historiker Ammianus Marcellinus erwähnt die civitas Novesium im Zusammenhang mit den Feldzügen des Iulianus Apostata in den Jahren kurz nach der Mitte des 4.
		Ammianus gehörte zum Kreis der Neuplatoniker um den Rhetor Libanios.
		Auch in der Verbindung von Reichsgeschichte und Kaiserbiographie folgt Ammianus seinem Vorgänger.
	www.novaesium.de /ammianus.htm (850 words)

	Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality by Robert M. Franks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Because Ammianus tells the reader that he started his narrative with the reign of Nerva (96-98), the lost first thirteen books of the Res Gestae would have dealt with around 257 years, demonstrating an uneven scale of narrative.
		Arguing that Ammianus composed his work in hexads (groups of six books), Barnes extrapolates that Ammianus really wrote his work in thirty-six books and that what we have surviving are actually books 19-36 (which were misnumbered in the transmission of the text to 14-31).
		Barnes questions whether Libanius would have been as demeaning to Ammianus and his work as the letter appears to be towards `Marcellinus.' As opposed to some recent theories, Barnes favours an origin for Ammianus somewhere in either Syria or Phoenicia because of the historian's knowledge of some Syriac.
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	Roman History Books and More: ammianus marcellinus, roman historian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ammianus Marcellinus was born between 325 and 335 A.D. and lived until at least 395.
		Ammianus’ work is often described as a continuation of the work of Tacitus.
		The importance of Ammianus as a historian is that he was able to break out of the superficiality of the “Kaiserbiographie” into an analysis, sometimes objective but always perceptive, of his age.
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		Archbold, A Concordance to the History of Ammianus Marcellinus (49 Microfiches), Univ. of Toronto pr.
		Hereijgers, Ammianus and Rome: een alternatieve interpretatie, Nijmegen 1996.
		Rohrbacher, Ammianus Marcellinus and the imperial bureaucracy: a historiographical study, Washington 1998.
	www.let.kun.nl /~m.v.d.poel/bibliografie/ammianmarc.htm (532 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Ammianus Marcellinus: History, XIV.16: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome, c. 400 CE
		Ancient History Sourcebook: Ammianus Marcellinus: History, XIV.16: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome, c.
		Ammianus Marcellinus, who observed Rome on a visit, saw the city as full of emptiness, shallowness, and as lacking of all real culture.
		Rome is still looked upon as the queen of the earth, and the name of the Roman people is respected and venerated.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ammianus
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		Ammianus Marcellinus AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS [Ammianus Marcellinus], c.330-c.400, Roman historian, b.
		Marcellinus Ammianus MARCELLINUS AMMIANUS [Marcellinus Ammianus] see Ammianus Marcellinus.
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	Barbarian Conspiracy - Ammianus Marcellinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ammianus Marcellinus refers to Constans having visited Britain, but unfortunately his record of the circumstances is lost.
		The emperor's [Constantius II] harsh and irritable temper, prone in any case to entertain baseless suspicions, was further excited by the flattery of his blood thirsty courtiers...
		Ammianus' description of the following events have led to them becoming known as the 'Barbarian Conspiracy'.
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	Ammianus Marcellinus
		He was born about 325‑330, probably at Antioch (the probability hinges on whether he was the recipient of a surviving letter to a Marcellinus from a fellow citizen of Antioch).
		Timothy D. Barnes: Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality.
		Charles W. Fornara: Studies in Ammianus Marcellinus I: The Letter of Libanius and Ammianus′ Connection with Antioch.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/AmmianusMarcellinus.html (781 words)

	Amazon.com: Roman History, I, Books 14-19 (Loeb Classical Library): Books: Ammianus Marcellinus,J. C. Rolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Now, Ammianus Marcellinus is the primary source for this era; he gained all his material through contemporary first-hand sources and documents, or through hearsay.
		Furthermore, Ammianus writes seemingly without bias or party-favor and he has a beautiful vision of eternal Rome, and of Fortune, Fate and Providence.
		Ammianus fits very comfortably in the pantheon of Latin literary giants like Cicero, Sallust, Tacitus and Livy, to name a few.
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	Humbul full record view for -- The Ammianus Marcellinus online project
		Developed by Jan Willem Drijvers, the Ammianus Marcellinus Online Project introduces the fourth century AD Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus and his work.
		A detailed biography of Ammianus is given, and further sections of the website are devoted to providing comprehensive bibliographical lists to provide the user with a starting point for further research.
		There is also a section on the structure of his work, and a series of essays on particular topics.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=17422 (218 words)

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	Bibliography -- The Ammianus Marcellinus Online Project
		There is a large number of publications dealing with Ammianus and subjects concerning his Res Gestae.
		This bibliography offers only the more general works and the recently appeared books in the hope that their bibliographies will lead the reader to publications dealing with more specific topics.
		The extensive bibliographies of the "Dutch commentaries" (J. den Boeft et.
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	AllRefer.com - Ammianus Marcellinus (Historians, Ancient, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Ammianus Marcellinus[amEA´nus mArsilI´nus] Pronunciation Key, c.330–c.400, Roman historian, b.
		See E. Thompson, Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (1947); Ammianus Marcellinus (his work tr.
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	AMMIANUS, MARCELLINUS - Online Informationsartikel ungefähr AMMIANUS, MARCELLINUS
		"Ammianus' ist ein genauer und zuverlässiger Führer, der die Geschichte aus seinen eigenen Zeiten bestand, ohne die Vorurteile und die Neigungen sich hinzugeben, die normalerweise den Verstand von einem zeitgenössischem" See also:
		Bibliothek), 1862; auch maximales Budinger, Ammianus Marcellinus und die'Eigenartwadenetze Geschichtswerkes (1895); See also:
		Liesenberg, DES Ammianus Marcellinus (1888-1890) WürfelSprache; T. See also:
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