Ammianus Marcellinus, Volume 1. (Loeb Classical Library, 300)

Ammianus Marcellinus; John C. Rolfe

ISBN 10: 0674993314 / ISBN 13: 9780674993310

Published by Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press., 1950

About this Item

Revised edition, reprinted 2000. -- LATIN opposite the English translation by John C. Rolfe. -- Hardcover. Condition: fine, with fine dust jacket. ISBN 0674993314.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ammianus Marcellinus, Volume 1. (Loeb Classical Library, 300)
• Publisher: Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press.
• Publication Date: 1950
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674993314
• ISBN 13: 9780674993310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • History - Ancient & Medieval

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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