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The last of the major historians of the western Roman Empire, Ammianus Marcellinus (~330-395) was a pagan Greek writing in Latin. A participant in Julian's unsuccessful invasion of Mesopotamia, he chronicled the course of Roman history from the accession of Nerva to the death of Valens in 378.

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• Ancient History Sourcebook: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ammianus-history14.asp
  An excerpt from the Roman History XIV.16, from the Davis translation, in which Ammianus criticizes Rome as shallow and culturally empty.

• Forum Romanum: Ammianus Marcellinus

  http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/ammianus_bio.html
  Latin text of Res Gestae a Fine Corneli Taciti, as well as a list of related sites.

• Histos: Ammianus Marcellinus on the Geography of the Pontus Euxinus

  http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/drijvers.html
  Paper by Jan Willem Drijvers of the University of Groningen considering Marcellinus' digression on the Black Sea in the Res Gestae as a literary rather than reference piece.

• The Battle of Adrianople

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/378adrianople.asp
  Excerpt from the Yonge 1862 translation (History, XXXI.12-14), on the Roman defeat.

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