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Ammianus, traditions of satire and the Eternity of Rome
No full textThe fourth-century historian Ammianus Marcellinus famously attacks the inhabitants of Rome in two satirical “digressions,” which have often been read as autobiographical statements of Ammianus’ anger against his fellow inhabitants of Rome. This article argues, however, that Ammianus consciously adopts a light-hearted satirical persona, whose indignatio owes more to the traditions of Roman satire than personal experience. Furthermore, the insertion of these satirical passages is a radical response to the contemporary reawakening of interest in satire, particularly by Christian authors, in Late Antiquity and a statement of the Res Gestae’s place in a longer literary tradition
Libanius the Historian? Praise and the presentation of the past in Or. 59
No full textLibanius’ panegyric for Constantius and Constans offers a sustained meditation on the proper role of historiography and its conventions in the practice of encomium
Review of: Praising the Otherness. Linguistic and Cultural Alterity in the Roman Empire: Historiography and Panegyrics. Eds. M.P. García Ruiz and A. Quiroga Puertas
No full textReview of: Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455. By Meaghan A. McEvoy. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013
No full textFred W. Jenkins, Ammianus Marcellinus: A n Annotated Bibliography 1474 to the Present. Leiden: Brill, 2017. Pp. xviii, 665. ISBN 9789004320291. Hbk €199.00
No full textConstantius and the sieges of Amida and Nisibis: Ammianus’ relationship with Julian’s Panegyrics
No full textAlthough 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
Ammianus Marcellinus 15.5.22 and Eutropius 10.16.1: an allusion
No full textIn Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography, John Marincola downplays the importance of an historian's choice to use first-, rather than third-, person verbs to represent his actions as an historical protagonist within his narrative. Marincola's justification for this rests on the incongruous groupings that arise if one divides first-person narrators from third: among the former we find Velleius, Eutropius and Ammianus representing Latin historians of the Empire. However, as part of a wider study which examines Ammianus' nuanced use of allusion to earlier Latin authors, Gavin Kelly has recently argued for a series of close intertextual relationships between Eutropius and Ammianus. I argue here that Ammianus' relationship with Eutropius also extends to their personal roles within their narratives, and that Ammianus' use of the first person singular makes a bold statement about his historiographical programme
A SURVEY OF EPIDEICTIC - Pernot ( L.) Epideictic Rhetoric. Questioning the Stakes of Ancient Praise. Pp. xvi + 166. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Cased, £25, US$50. ISBN: 978-0-292-76820-8
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