Beskrivning
Beskrivning
A soldier’s chronicle of Rome in decline.AmmianusMarcellinus (ca. AD 325–ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the armywhen still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperorof the East Constantius II, and later under the emperor Julian, whom headmired and accompanied against the Alamanni and the Persians. Hesubsequently settled in Rome, where he wrote in Latin a history of theRoman empire in the period AD 96–378, entitled Rerum Gestarum Libri XXXI.Of these 31 books only 14–31 (AD 353–378) survive, a remarkablyaccurate and impartial record of his own times. Soldier though he was,he includes economic and social affairs. He was broadminded towardsnon-Romans and towards Christianity. We get from him clear indicationsof causes of the fall of the Roman empire. His style indicates that hisprose was intended for recitation.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ammianus Marcellinus is in three volumes.
