Ammianus' Julian

Ammianus Marcellinus'' Res Gestae holds a prominent position in modern studies of the emperor Julian as the fullest extant narrative of the reign of the last ''pagan'' emperor. Ammianus'' Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae offers a major reinterpretation of the work, which is one of the main narrative sources for the political history of the later Roman Empire, and argues for a re-exami...