Author : Ammianus Marcellinus
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 2045 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
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Ammianus Marcellinus was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from. The surviving books of his history cover the years 353 to 378. His work, known as the Res Gestae, chronicled in Latin the history of Rome from the accession of the Emperor Nerva in 96 to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople. It is lauded as a clear, comprehensive, and generally impartial account of events by a contemporary.
Author : Ammianus Marcellinus
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 3766 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2016-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1786563665
The fourth century soldier Ammianus Marcellinus’ book of Roman history provides a remarkably accurate and impartial record, giving readers a succinct understanding of the fall of the Roman Empire. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents Ammianus’ complete extant works, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ammianus’ life and works * Features the complete extant works of Ammianus, in both English translation and the original Latin * Concise introductions to the history work * Provides two different translations of Ammianus’ work: C. D. Yonge and J. C. Rolfe * Includes the translation that previously appeared in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Ammianus * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables * Provides a special dual English and Latin text, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph – ideal for students * Features a bonus biography – discover Ammianus’ ancient world * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to explore our range of Ancient Classics titles or buy the entire series as a Super Set CONTENTS: The Translations HISTORY OF ROME C. D. YONGE TRANSLATION, 1862 J. C. ROLFE TRANSLATION, 1940 The Latin Text CONTENTS OF THE LATIN TEXT The Dual Text DUAL LATIN AND ENGLISH TEXT The Biography INTRODUCTION TO AMMIANUS by J. C. Rolfe Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
Author : Ammianus Marcellinus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0141921501
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.
Author : Nigel Rodgers
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754834205
An authoritative account of political and military history, art, architecture and culture, sumptously illustrated throughout.
Author : Simon MacDowall
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Adrianople, Battle of, Edirne, Turkey, 378
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Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 1866
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Author : Publius Vergilius Maro
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 1438103123
Explores the rise and fall and spheres of influence, society and daily life, key events, and important figures of the Roman Empire.
Author : Mariana Castro
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784919535
This volume provides a fresh perspective on the evolving and diverse functions of the Roman army in Arabia from the creation of the province to the end of the Byzantine period.
Author : Adrian Coombs-Hoar
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1781590885
In AD376 large groups of Goths, seeking refuge from the Huns, sought admittance to the Eastern Roman Empire. Emperor Valens took the strategic decision to grant them entry, hoping to utilize them as a source of manpower for his campaigns against Persia. The Goths had been providing good warriors to Roman armies for decades. However, mistreatment of the refugees by Roman officials led them to take up arms against their hosts. ?The resultant battle near Adrianopolis in AD378, in which Valens lost his life, is regarded as one of the most significant defeats ever suffered by Roman arms. The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus called it the worst massacre since Cannae, nearly six hundred years previously. Modern historians have accorded it great significance both at a tactical level, due to the success of Gothic cavalry over the vaunted Roman infantry, and in strategic terms, often citing it as the beginning of the end for the Empire. Adrian Coombs-Hoar untangles the debate that still surrounds many aspects such claims with an insightful account that draws on the latest research.
