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Ammianus Marcellinus

330 - 395

Ammianus Marcellinus

Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicised as Ammian (Greek: Αμμιανός Μαρκελλίνος; born c. 330, died c. 391 – 400), was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity (preceding Procopius). Written in Latin and known as the Res gestae, his work chronicled the history of Rome from the accession of the Emperor Nerva in 96 to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ammianus Marcellinus has received more than 498,721 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Ammianus Marcellinus is the 447th most popular writer (down from 387th in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from Türkiye and the 9th most popular Writer.

Ammianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Roman historian who wrote a history of Rome from the death of Augustus in 14 AD to the death of Valens in 378 AD.

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Notable Works

Ammianvs Marcellinvs Res Gestae vol.1

2000

Rerum gestarum libri qui supersunt

1773

Rerum gestarum libri

History

Ammianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Roman historian, and the last pagan to write a history of Rome in Latin. Little is known of his life, except that he was probably born to a Greek-speaking family in Antioch, between 325 and 330 AD, and that he served as a soldier in the army of Constantius II in Gaul and Persia until he retired to Rome, where he wrote his history. His original work consisted of thirty-one books, covering the years 96 to 378 AD, however only the last eighteen books, from 353 to 378 AD, have survived. This glimpse of the Roman Empire, immediately before its collapse, has become extremely valuable as a clear, comprehensive, and generally impartial account of events of the Fourth Century. Marcellinus was extremely skilled in rhetoric, which is evident in his writing, and like most ancient historians, he displays a strong political and religious agenda at times.

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Storie

2001

Ammianus Marcellinus

Rome

1935

Roemische Geschichte (Schriften Und Quellen Der Alten Welt)

1986

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Over the past year Ammianus Marcellinus has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 64,224 views, followed by Russian (15,122), and Italian (15,009). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (98.06%), Sicilian (96.47%), and Piedmontese (94.77%)

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Among writers, Ammianus Marcellinus ranks 447 out of 7,302. Before him are Giacomo Leopardi, Auguste Escoffier, Propertius, Rudaki, Fausto Cercignani, and Comte de Lautréamont. After him are Karl Barth, Gabriela Mistral, Susan Sontag, Salvatore Quasimodo, Boris Vian, and Wolfram von Eschenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 330, Ammianus Marcellinus ranks 1. After him is Caesarius of Nazianzus. Among people deceased in 395, Ammianus Marcellinus ranks 3. Before him are Theodosius I, and Gregory of Nyssa. After him are Ausonius, Rufinus, and Macarius of Alexandria.