The Later Roman Empire

a.D. 354-378

Ammianus Marcellinus, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill , Walter Hamilton

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Penguin
01 September 1986

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Penguin Black Classics

The historical account of the end of the Roman Empire

Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. 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. 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. 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.

By: Ammianus Marcellinus
Notes by: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Introduction by: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Edited by: Walter Hamilton
Translated by: Walter Hamilton
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 371g
ISBN: 9780140444063
ISBN 10: 0140444068
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 01 September 1986
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, continuing the histories of Tacitus from AD 96 down to his own day. The first thirteen of his thirty-one books are lost: the remainder describe AD 354 - 378. Walter Hamilton translated Plato's Symposium, the Gorgias, Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII for Penguin Classics. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Professor of Classics at Reading University. His books include Suetonius: the Scholar and his Caesars.