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Ammianus Marcellinus
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Ammianus Marcellinus (lived 4th century)

Roman soldier and historian. The surviving books of his work, dealing with contemporary affairs in the later Roman Empire, rank him as the last major Roman historian.

Having settled in Rome some time after 371, he wrote Rerum gestarum libri/The Chronicle of Events, a Latin history of the Roman Empire from Nerva to the death of Valens (AD 96-378). Only 18 of 31 books have survived, but they provide most valuable evidence for the years 353-378.



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The religiously neutral Ammianus Marcellinus (History 27.
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With the help of boats furnished by the Romans, the Goths poured across the Danube into Roman territory--"like lava from Etna," in the words of Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus--and set up encampments in Thrace.
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From about 320 to 395, the twenty-eight public libraries in Rome "like tombs, were closed forever," as Cahill quotes the lamenting Ammianus Marcellinus--whom he fails to identify as a non-Christian historian.
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