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Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus , c.330-c.400, Roman historian, b. Antioch. After retiring from a successful military career, he wrote a history of the Roman Empire as a sequel to that of Tacitus, his model. The history, in 31 books, covered the years from AD 96 to 378; only Books XIV-XXXI, covering the years ... Read more
Philemon Holland
Philemon Holland 1552-1637, English translator and scholar. Educated at Cambridge, he became director of the free school in Coventry, where he also practiced medicine. He was the first English translator of Livy and Septonius, of Plutarch's Morals and Pliny's Natural History, and of Ammianus Ma... Read more
Latin literature
Latin literature the literature of ancient Rome and of that written in Latin in later eras. Very little remains of the ritualistic songs and the native poetry of the Romans and Latins before the rise of a literature. The history of the Roman Empire is fundamental to the fabric of this literatu... Read more

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Ammianus Marcellinus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Ammianus Marcellinus , c.330-c.400, Roman...and an admirer of Julian the Apostate, Ammianus was able to write about Christianity without...E. A. Thompson, Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (1947); Ammianus Marcellinus...
Marcellinus Ammianus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Marcellinus Ammianus see Ammianus Marcellinus .
Attacotti
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...homeland. They are mentioned only in late Roman sources such as Ammianus Marcellinus and St Jerome, amongst whom they had a reputation...in particular, accused them of cannibalism. According to Ammianus they took part in raids on the province of Britain in ad 365...
Dactylomancy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...it. The ring, it is said, will indicate certain letters, which make up the message required. According to the historian Ammianus Marcellinus (320-390 C.E.), this method was used to find the successor to Flavius Valens (d. 378 C.E.); the...
Latin literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...traditional themes to deal with everyday life and the world of nature. Claudian is considered the best of the late poets. Ammianus Marcellinus was a noted historian. The philological scholars of the empire were numerous. These included Aulus Gellius...
Philemon Holland
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Cambridge, he became director of the free school in Coventry, where he also practiced medicine. He was the first English translator of Livy and Septonius, of Plutarch's Morals and Pliny's Natural History, and of Ammianus Marcellinus.
Alectromancy (or Alectryomancy)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...A kind of Alectromancy was also sometimes practiced upon the crowing of the cock, and the periods at which it was heard. Ammianus Marcellinus (fourth century C.E.) describes the ritual that accompanied this act rather differently. The sorcerers commenced...
Holland, Philemon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...his translations of Livy (1600), Pliny's Natural History (1601), Plutarch's Moralia (1603), Suetonius (1606), Ammianus Marcellinus (1609), Camden's Britannia (1610), and Xenophon's Cyropaedia (1632). His knowledge of Greek and Latin...
Picts
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...were a whole group of tribes, possibly a new federation. An important historical attestation of the Picts is provided by Ammianus Marcellinus, who records attacks on Roman Britain by Picts, Scots, Irish, and Saxons culminating in the ‘Picts...
Table-turning (or Table-tipping)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...self. In ancient times tables were used for purposes of divination as "mensa divinatoriae." In fourth-century Rome, Ammianus Marcellinus described a table with a slab, engraved with the letters of the alphabet, above which a ring was held, suspended...

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Ammianus Marcellinus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology Ammianus Marcellinus. Last of the great Roman historians ( c. AD 330–...when raised in anger. English translation in the Loeb Classical Library, Ammianus Marcellinus (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1935–9).
Classical commentators
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology Classical commentators. Among the ancient writers most helpful in understanding Celtic culture, religion, and myth are: Ammianus Marcellinus , Julius Caesar , Diodorus Siculus , Eusebius , Pliny the Elder , Polybius , Posidonius , Ptolemy , Solinus , Strabo , and Tacitus .
Picts
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...of the ‘Caledones and other Picti’. An important historical attestation of the Picts is provided by Ammianus Marcellinus, who records attacks on Roman Britain by Picts, Scots, Irish, and Saxons culminating in the ‘Picts...
Oribasius
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...source for Eunapius ’ biography of Julian and, evidently, as a source for some parts of the historical writings of Ammianus Marcellinus. Banished after Julian ’ s death along with other of his supporters, Oribasius was later rehabilitated...
Attacotti
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...have inhabited a corner of north‐western Britain, most probably the Outer Hebrides. They are mentioned only in late Roman sources such as Ammianus Marcellinus and St Jerome, amongst whom they had a reputation for savagery.

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Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality.(Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; Barnes, Timothy D. Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical...Toronto, has written a very thorough study of Ammianus Marcellinus, one of Rome's greatest historians. Even though Ammianus's Res Gestae has been recognized as essential...
The Roman Empire of Ammianus.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 502 words ; 9780979971327 The Roman Empire of Ammianus. Matthews, John. Michigan Classical...2007 608 pages $87.00 Hardcover DG315 Ammianus, the last great historian of the Classical...nearly 20 years ago. The Roman Empire of Ammianus in the fourth century CE was faced with...
Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXV.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 478 words ; ...04-14214-2 Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXV. Den Boeft, J. et al. Brill Academic Publishers...150.00 Book 25 of the Res Gestae is the final part of Ammianus' trilogy on the Persian expedition under Roman emperor Julian...
Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 433 words ; 9789004163461 Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI. Ed. by J. den Boeft et al. BRILL 2008...00 Hardcover PA6205 Having commented on earlier sections of Ammianus' history of Rome, Den Boft and colleagues here consider the...
Bloodlust of the Barbarians; They mutilated their children, tortured their women and, for 600 years, plunged Europe into an age of unspeakable barbarity. Tonight, believe it or not, a documentary on Channel 4 says they were cultured, sophisticated, and deeply misunderstood.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 7/8/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...fourth-century historian of the Empire, Ammianus, has left us a vivid picture of the...found them repulsive and animallike. Ammianus notes how 'from the moment of birth...elongated skulls. Nevertheless, even Ammianus admitted that the Huns were the most...
The BARBARIAN Threat.(ancient Roman empire)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...had swept out of the east. The contemporary Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus described them as a "prodigiously ugly" people...allowed quick charges with swords and javelins (short lances). Ammianus reported, "The barbarians poured on in huge columns, trampling...
Rome's dark night of tyranny: when the republic fell, Rome entered the dark decline of empire. Only after centuries of misery under predominantly tyrannical emperors did Rome finally meet its end.(History--Rome)
Magazine article from: The New American; 2/7/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...like lava from Etna," in the words of Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus--and set up encampments in Thrace. The occupying...the fateful decision of a weak and foolish emperor, and what Ammianus mournfully called the "tumultuous eagerness of those who urged...
That time flies is a cliche; t ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/30/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...amazed me that anything so ancient could also be so wicked as Ammianus's "Epitaph of Nearchos": Rest lightly O Earth upon this...copy} 1994 by Robert Hass. Dudley Fitts's translations of Ammianus and Meleagros appear in "Poems from the Greek Anthology...
Obituary: Professor Edward Thompson
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/6/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...while 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...
ANTIQUITY PAUL CARTLEDGE CONSIDERS THE BATTLE THAT BEGAN ROME'S DECLINE AND FALL
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/12/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Our main and indeed almost only source is a contemporary, Ammianus Marcellinus, actually a Greek from Antioch who chose nevertheless...North Atlantic fog'. And it is odd not once to be told that Ammianus was himself a pagan, who memorably regarded the behaviour...