Ammianus Marcellinus and the representation of historical reality /

"Much of what we know today of Rome in the fourth century depends on the surviving eighteen books of the Res Gestae of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. The accuracy of Ammianus' reporting has come under question over the past fifty years, however, and Timothy D. Barnes here offers new g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barnes, Timothy David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Colección:Cornell studies in classical philology ; v. 56.
Temas:
Ammianus Marcellinus. > Rerum gestarum libri.
Ammien Marcellin (0330?-0400?). > Histoires.
Ammien Marcellin, > (0330?-0400?) > Critique et interprétation.
Rerum gestarum libri (Ammianus Marcellinus)
284-476
Historiography > Rome.
Historiographie > Rome.
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Historiography
Res gestae (Ammianus Marcellinus)
Geschiedschrijving.
Rome > History > Empire, 284-476 > Historiography.
Rome > Histoire > 284-476 (Bas-Empire) > Historiographie.
Rome (Empire)
Rome > 284-476 (Bas-Empire) > Historiographie.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The impartial historian
  • Reality and its representation
  • Symmetry and structure
  • Narrative and excursus
  • Dating, emphasis, and omission
  • Origin and social status
  • The Greek template
  • Christian language and anti-Christian polemic
  • Things seen and things read
  • Enemies, animals, and stereotypes
  • Empresses and eunuchs
  • Tyranny and incompetence
  • The new Achilles
  • Past, present, and future
  • Tacitus, Ammianus, and Macaulay.

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