Late Roman World and its Historian
Subtitle: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus (Routledge Classical Monographs)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 12, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415202718
First sentence: Ammianus Marcellinus is usually studied as the mature author who completed the Res Gestae in the mid-390s, whose reporting on political and military affairs is subjected to all the usual tests for historical accuracy and literary influences.