TY - BOOK ID - 78142689 TI - The late Roman world and its historian AU - Drijvers, Jan Willem AU - Hunt, David PY - 1999 SN - 1280026006 9786610026005 0203024893 0203170911 9780203170915 9780203024898 041520271X 9780415202718 9781280026003 6610026009 9781134631742 9781134631780 9781134631797 9780415642330 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Historians KW - Greeks KW - Emperors KW - Czars (Emperors) KW - Rulers KW - Sovereigns KW - Tsars KW - Tzars KW - Kings and rulers KW - Ethnology KW - Mediterranean race KW - Historiographers KW - Scholars KW - History. KW - Ammianus Marcellinus KW - Ammien Marcellin KW - Contributions in history of late Roman Empire. KW - Rome KW - History KW - Historiography. KW - Historians - Rome - Biography. KW - Greeks - Rome - Biography KW - Emperors - Rome - Biography - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142689 AB - Ammianus Marcellinus, Greek by birth but writing in Latin c. AD 390, was the last great Roman historian. His writings are an indispensable basis for our knowledge of the late Roman world. This book represents a collection of papers analysing Ammianus's writings from a variety of perspective, including Ammianus as historian of, and participant in, Julian's Persian campaign, his identification with traditional religious attitudes and values in Rome and his view of the Persian Magi. The contributors engage especially with the concept of self-identification. They address the tension of Ammianus' ER -