The later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378) / Ammianus Marcellinus ; selected and translated by Walter Hamilton ; with an introduction and notes by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.
Material type: TextLanguage: englat Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1986.Description: 506 p. : maps ; 20 cmISBN:- 0140444068 (pbk.) :
- Rerum gestarum libri. English. Selections
- 937/.08 19
- DG316.7 .A452513 1986
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 937.08 A518 | Available | 33111003177595 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, and Valens, and providing eyewitness accounts of significant military events including the Battle of Strasbourg and the Goth's Revolt. Portraying a time of rapid and dramatic change, Marcellinus describes an Empire exhausted by excessive taxation, corruption, the financial ruin of the middle classes and the progressive decline in the morale of the army. In this magisterial depiction of the closing decades of the Roman Empire, we can see the seeds of events that were to lead to the fall of the city, just twenty years after Marcellinus' death.
Translation of: Rerum gestarum libri.