History, Volume III: Books 27-31. Excerpta Valesiana

History, Volume III: Books 27-31. Excerpta Valesiana

History, Volume III: Books 27-31. Excerpta Valesiana

History, Volume III: Books 27-31. Excerpta Valesiana

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Overview

A soldier’s chronicle of Rome in decline.

Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. AD 325–ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of the East Constantius II, and later under the emperor Julian, whom he admired and accompanied against the Alamanni and the Persians. He subsequently settled in Rome, where he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire in the period AD 96–378, entitled Rerum Gestarum Libri XXXI. Of these 31 books only 14–31 (AD 353–378) survive, a remarkably accurate and impartial record of his own times. Soldier though he was, he includes economic and social affairs. He was broadminded towards non-Romans and towards Christianity. We get from him clear indications of causes of the fall of the Roman empire. His style indicates that his prose was intended for recitation.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ammianus Marcellinus is in three volumes.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674993655
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1939
Series: Loeb Classical Library , #331
Edition description: 6th printing/1st pub.1939/maps/indexes
Pages: 624
Product dimensions: 4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.25(d)
Language: Latin

About the Author

John Carew Rolfe (1859–1943) taught at Cornell, Harvard, and the Universities of Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Surviving Books of the History

Book XXVII

Book XXVIII

Book XXIX

Book XXX

Book XXXI

Excerpta Valesiana

Lineage Or The Emperor Constantine

History Of King Theodorio

Index

Illustrations And Maps

Valentinian I

Map: Thrace And The Aegaean

Map: Britain, Germany And North Africa

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