Marcellinus Ammianus
Marcellinus Ammianus see Ammianus Marcellinus .
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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...a very thorough study of Ammianus Marcellinus, one of Rome's greatest...about him have evolved. In Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of...
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Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXV.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 478 words
; ...14214-2 Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXV. Den Boeft, J. et al. Brill Academic Publishers...00 Book 25 of the Res Gestae is the final part of Ammianus' trilogy on the Persian expedition under Roman emperor...
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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 356...Hardcover PA6205 Having commented on earlier sections of Ammianus' history of Rome, Den Boft and colleagues here consider...
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Obituary: Professor Edward Thompson
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/6/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...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...
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Trajan's Forum. (Book Reviews).(The Forum of Trajan in Rome -- A Study of the Monuments in Brief)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Architectural Science Review; 12/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...forgotten. In the 4th century AD the historian Ammianus Marcellinus had called it 'a construction unique under the...illustrations, drawn by a variety of people, fully justify Marcellinus' judgement. This complex seems indeed the highpoint...
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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
; ...and indeed almost only source is a contemporary, Ammianus Marcellinus, actually a Greek from Antioch who chose nevertheless...Atlantic fog'. And it is odd not once to be told that Ammianus was himself a pagan, who memorably regarded the behaviour...
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The BARBARIAN Threat.(ancient Roman empire)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...out of the east. The contemporary Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus described them as a "prodigiously ugly" people who...charges with swords and javelins (short lances). Ammianus reported, "The barbarians poured on in huge columns...
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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
; ...lava from Etna," in the words of Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus--and set up encampments in Thrace. The occupying...decision of a weak and foolish emperor, and what Ammianus mournfully called the "tumultuous eagerness of those...
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Lessons from the history boys
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/7/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...over to Antiquity, from Thucydides's immediate successors and Polybius down to "the last pagan historian", Ammianus Marcellinus - are of the highest quality. They are extraordinarily good for a non- specialist, even one who remembers his...
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David Rohrbacher. The historians of late antiquity. (book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 9/1/2002; ; 387 words
; ...sterling]. After a helpful introduction, Dr ROHRBACHER'S book falls into two parts. In the first, he appraises Ammianus Marcellinus and 11 other historians. After reviewing their historiography, he turns, in the second, to assess their various...
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Ammianus Marcellinus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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...
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Marcellinus Ammianus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Marcellinus Ammianus see Ammianus Marcellinus .
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Attacotti
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...They are mentioned only in late Roman sources such as Ammianus Marcellinus and St Jerome, amongst whom they had a reputation...particular, accused them of cannibalism. According to Ammianus they took part in raids on the province of Britain...
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Latin literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...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...
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Alectromancy (or Alectryomancy)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...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...
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