Article: Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXV.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical ...
History: Review of New Books;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Barnes, Timothy D. Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation ... very thorough study of Ammianus Marcellinus, one of Rome's greatest ... about him have evolved. In Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation ...

Encyclopedia entry: Ammianus Marcellinus
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      595 words ...Ammianus Marcellinus , c.330-c.400, Roman historian, b. Antioch ... Bibliography: See E. A. Thompson, Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (1947); Ammianus Marcellinus (his work tr. by J. C. Rolfe 1935, repr. 1963 ...

Article: Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus ...
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2008 ;     433 words ...9789004163461 Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI. Ed. by J. den Boeft et al. BRILL 2008 356 pages $156.00 Hardcover PA6205 Having commented on earlier sections of Ammianus ...

Article: Obituary: Professor Edward Thompson
The Independent - London;  January 6, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... still in Dublin, of a passage of the late fourth- century historian Ammianus Marcellinus, on whom he was to write his first book, The Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (1947). In 1945 Thompson moved to King's College London, where ...

Encyclopedia entry: Libanius
Who's Who in the Classical World;      698 words ... ... Chrysostom and Theodore of Mopsuestia were almost certainly among them, Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus probably, and Ammianus Marcellinus possibly. In his later years Libanius became a literary figure of renown throughout the Greek world, and was ...

Encyclopedia entry: Historians
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;      371 words ... ... Roman . The following names include ancient historians who wrote in Latin, and the titles of Latin histories: Ammianus Marcellinus, Annales , Caesar, Cremutius Cordus, Curtius, Eutropius, Festus, Florus, Hirtius, Historia Augusta ...

Encyclopedia entry: Attacotti
The Oxford Companion to British History;      377 words ... ... west Scotland have also been suggested as their homeland. They are mentioned only in late Roman sources such as Ammianus Marcellinus and St Jerome, amongst whom they had a reputation for savagery. St Jerome, in particular, accused them of ...