Although the emperor Julian appears as the dominant character within the extant portion of Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae, Ammianus' relationship with Julian's writings has rarely been investigated. This article argues that Ammianus models aspects of his description of the siege of Amida in 359 upon the narrative of the siege of Nisibis in 350 in Julian's two panegyrics to Constantius. Ammianus' intertextuality with Julian is designed to provide a subtle denigration of Constantius by offering a corrective reading of Constantius' most notable military triumph against the Persian king Sapor
The importance of the role of the empress Eusebia1 in the watershed years (354–5) of the life of Jul...
Predicting the future is contentious. In the fourth century competing claimants tried to define who ...
This edited collection focuses on the Roman empire during the period from AD 337 to 361. During this...
The present Ph.D. deals with two chapters taken from the Res gestae by the Greek historiographer Amm...
This project focuses primarily on the Greek imperial panegyrics of the Roman Emperor Julian (r. 355-...
The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that the late Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus used...
This article deals with the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus’ famous description of the emperor ...
This chapter examines how, by means of a carefully constructed narrative, the fourth-century Latin h...
Scholars have not paid much attention to the reign of Jovian (363–364) and the appreciation of his b...
In 359 CE Constantius II appointed investigators into the fall of Amida, who confronted Ursicinus, a...
Offers a major reinterpretation of Ammianus' Res Gestae, drawing on detailed analysis of his depicti...
At the end of book twenty of his Res Gestae Ammianus Marcellinus depicts an abundance of rainbows ab...
The summer of 357 was a problematic time of overlapping troubles for the Roman Empire in the West. A...
Constantius has no ancient biographers, and detailed studies of the emperor by modern historians are...
The time today referred to as Late Antiquity was a time of turbulence and upheaval in the Roman Empi...
The importance of the role of the empress Eusebia1 in the watershed years (354–5) of the life of Jul...
Predicting the future is contentious. In the fourth century competing claimants tried to define who ...
This edited collection focuses on the Roman empire during the period from AD 337 to 361. During this...
The present Ph.D. deals with two chapters taken from the Res gestae by the Greek historiographer Amm...
This project focuses primarily on the Greek imperial panegyrics of the Roman Emperor Julian (r. 355-...
The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that the late Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus used...
This article deals with the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus’ famous description of the emperor ...
This chapter examines how, by means of a carefully constructed narrative, the fourth-century Latin h...
Scholars have not paid much attention to the reign of Jovian (363–364) and the appreciation of his b...
In 359 CE Constantius II appointed investigators into the fall of Amida, who confronted Ursicinus, a...
Offers a major reinterpretation of Ammianus' Res Gestae, drawing on detailed analysis of his depicti...
At the end of book twenty of his Res Gestae Ammianus Marcellinus depicts an abundance of rainbows ab...
The summer of 357 was a problematic time of overlapping troubles for the Roman Empire in the West. A...
Constantius has no ancient biographers, and detailed studies of the emperor by modern historians are...
The time today referred to as Late Antiquity was a time of turbulence and upheaval in the Roman Empi...
The importance of the role of the empress Eusebia1 in the watershed years (354–5) of the life of Jul...
Predicting the future is contentious. In the fourth century competing claimants tried to define who ...
This edited collection focuses on the Roman empire during the period from AD 337 to 361. During this...