Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXXI

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35381-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Latin, Band 12, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

Reihe: Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus

This is the final volume in the series of commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae. The last book of Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae is the most important source for a momentous event in European history: the invasion of the Goths across the Danube border into the Roman Empire and the ensuing battle of Adrianople (378 CE), in which a Roman army was annihilated and the emperor Valens lost his life. Many contemporaries were of the opinion that this defeat heralded the decline of the Empire. Ammianus is sharply critical of the way Valens and his generals handled the military situation, but holds on to his belief in the permanence of Roma Aeterna, reminding his readers of earlier crises from which the Empire had recovered and pointing to the incompetence of the barbarians in siege craft.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Den Boeft, Jan

Drijvers, Jan Willem

Den Hengst, Daniël

Teitler, Hans C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Jan den Boeft, Ph.D. (1970) in Latin, Leiden University, is emeritus Professor of Latin at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and of Hellenistic Religions at Utrecht University. He has published on i.a. Ambrose, Augustine and Erasmus.

Jan Willem Drijvers, Ph.D. (1989) in History, University of Groningen, is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Groningen. He is the author of i.a. Cyril of Jerusalem: Bishop and City (Leiden 2004). http://www.rug.nl/staff/j.w.drijvers.

Daniël den Hengst, Ph.D. (1981) in Latin, University of Amsterdam, is emeritus Professor of Latin at the University of Amsterdam. An anthology of his articles on Late Antique Historiography is Burgersdijk, D.W.P. & Van Waarden, J.A. (eds.) Emperors and Historiography, Brill 2010.

Hans Teitler, Ph.D. (1983) in Ancient History, Utrecht University, was formerly Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Utrecht University. He is the author of i.a. The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate & the War against Christianity, New York 2017.