Book 31 describes the Gothic invasion of 376 CE, the defeat of the Romans in the battle of Adrianople and the death of the emperor Valens. This thesis discusses and analyses the use of anger in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus (St Andrews, Latin Historiography – LT4209) This is the final volume in the series of commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae. Title of work: Res Gestae Reference: XX.5.10 Commentary: For a presentation of Ammianus’s life and work, the Res Gestae, see Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XIV.6.3-6.

The Roman History Of Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Roman historian, and the last pagan to write a history of Rome in Latin. The time frame covered is from AD 354-378, and includes a diverse area covering most of the Roman Empire from Gaul to Germania, to Illyricum, Spain, Africa, Thrace, Syria and Italy. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the The Roman History Of Ammianus Marcellinus, you will able to read or download in Pdf or ePub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country.Therefore it need a FREE signup process to obtain the book. Download Ammianus Marcellinus ebook PDF or Read Online books in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format.

Title of work: Res Gestae Reference: XXII.5 Commentary: For a presentation of Ammianus’s life and of his work, the Res Gestae, see Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XIV.6.3-6.

Ammianus Marcellinus' excursus on the Huns and Alans in the thirty‐first and last book of his Res Gestae, in which he creates an image of an enemy that threatens the Roman empire, mainly serves to enhance the suspense in the final part of his narrative.It contains a message to the reigning emperor to defend the borders between barbarism and civilization. Little is known of his life, except that he was probably born to a Greek-speaking family in Antioch, between 325 and 330 AD, and that he served as a soldier in the army of Constantius II in Gaul and Persia until he retired to Rome, where he wrote his history. It is commonly assumed that Ammianus composed books XX to XXII of his Res Gestae between 388 and 390 CE p. 115 "the Aegyptiaca in at least five books": delete "at least".