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The Later Roman Empire

by Ammianus Marcellinus

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Ammianus Marcellinus’s history is a major source for the Roman Empire in the mid-to-late fourth century. The surviving books cover Constantius II, Julian’s rise and Persian campaign, court politics, frontier warfare, the disaster at Adrianople’s approach and the reigns of Valentinian and Valens. It is useful for places, campaigns and administrative detail in the later empire, especially where a reader wants a soldier-historian’s account of military and imperial crisis.

Historical Periods

Gothic War of Valens and Theodosius I376–382 CE Classical Historiography500 BCE–250 CE

Genres

Classical Literature

Historical people

Hadrian76–138 Tiberius43 BCE–37 Valens328–378 Ammianus Marcellinus330–395 Julian331–363 Constantius II317–361

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