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Ammianus Marcellinus Is Usually Regarded As Our Most Important Source For The History Of The Second Half Of The Fourth Century Ad, While His Literary Qualities Are Neglected. This Book Demonstrates What A Subtle And Manipulative Writer Ammianus Is; Attention Is Paid Particularly To His Rich And Variegated Intertextuality With Earlier Classical Literature And History. Questioning The Prevailing Interest In The Historian's Life As The Key To His Work, Author Gavin Kelly Re-evaluates The Historiographical Function Of The Vivid And Thrilling Autobiographical Passages. The Range Of Ammianus' Allusions Is Surveyed, Including His Use Of Classical Examples, His Relationship With Historical Source-texts And The Workings Of Internal Echoes Within The History. His Interactions With Other Texts Are Seen As Carefully Controlled And Meaningful; And Both His Allusive Techniques And His Writing In General, It Is Argued, Are Better Viewed As Reflecting A Classical, Rather Than A Late-antique, Aesthetic.--jacket. Introduction -- Part I. The Elusive Historian -- The Bones On The Battlefield -- The Adventures Of Ammianus -- The Limits Of Biography -- Part Ii. The Allusive Historian -- Ammianus' Intert

Author

Kelly, Gavin, 1974-

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521842990

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Humanities