TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boeft,J.den
AU  - Drijvers,Jan Willem
AU  - Hengst,Daniël den
AU  - Teitler,H.C.
TI  - Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus
T2  - Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus
SN  - 9789004353824
AV  - PA6205 .P478 2018eb
U1  - 937/.08 23
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill.
KW  - Ammianus Marcellinus.
KW  - Adrianople, Battle of (Edirne, Turkey : 378)
KW  - fast
KW  - Rerum gestarum libri (Ammianus Marcellinus)
KW  - Adrianople, Battle of, Edirne, Turkey, 378
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - Empire, 284-476
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Edirne
N1  - Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 3, 2018); Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Front Matter; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 1; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 2; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 3; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 4; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 5; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 6; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 7; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 8; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 9; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 10; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 11; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 12; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 13; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 14; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 15; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Chapter 16; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Bibliography; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Indices; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler --; Maps; J. den Boeft , J.W. Drijvers , D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This is the final volume in the series of commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae . The last book of Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae is the most important source for a momentous event in European history: the invasion of the Goths across the Danube border into the Roman Empire and the ensuing battle of Adrianople (378 CE), in which a Roman army was annihilated and the emperor Valens lost his life. Many contemporaries were of the opinion that this defeat heralded the decline of the Empire. Ammianus is sharply critical of the way Valens and his generals handled the military situation, but holds on to his belief in the permanence of Roma Aeterna , reminding his readers of earlier crises from which the Empire had recovered and pointing to the incompetence of the barbarians in siege craft
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004353824
ER  -