Ammianus Marcellinus and the representation of historical reality - Timothy David Barnes
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'B. offers a wide-ranging and detailed analysis of different aspects of the 'Res Gestae'. Three chapters examine its narrative structure, arguing that it was arranged in groups of six books, and that the transmitted book numbers are erroneous; four chapters reconsider what is known about the background of its author and what this might tell us about his work (including the suggestion that Ammianus' language reveals him to have been, like Julian, an apostate Christian); four chapters survey Ammianus' tecniques of characterization and his views of women, eunuchs, and emperors (including, of course, Julian; (...)). In the last two chapters B. reconstructs Ammianus' overall conception of the course of Roman history, and compares his approach to writing history to that of Tacitus and of Macaulay. The key to understanding the work is seen to be Ammianus' overt paganism and carefully concealed hostility to Christianity. (...) B. constantly compares Ammianus' version of events to those of other accounts and identifie...
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Ithace / London, 1998. XIV,290p. Original cloth with pictorial dust wrps. Dust wrps a little bit edge-worn. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: BARNES, T.D.,] [Uitgever: Cornell University Press] [Jaar: 1998] [Titel: Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality.]
