![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this magisterial depiction of the closing decades of the Roman Empire, we can see the seeds of events that were to lead to the fall of the city, just twenty years after Marcellinus' death. Portraying a time of rapid and dramatic change, Marcellinus describes an Empire exhausted by excessive taxation, corruption, the financial ruin of the middle classes and the progressive decline in the morale of the army. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, and Valens, and providing eyewitness accounts of significant military events including the Battle of Strasbourg and the Goth's Revolt. This volume contains in translation the major part of the extant books (14 -31) of the histories of Ammianus Marcellinus, which cover the years a.d. The roman history of Ammianus Marcellinus : during the reigns of the emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens / translated by C. Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and. Ammianus Marcellinus’s most popular book is The Later Roman Empire A.D. ![]()
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