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Tables of Contents for Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
2
Editions, Translations, and Commentaries
ix
2
Abbreviations
xi
I The Impartial Historian
1
10
II Reality and Its Representation
11
9
III Symmetry and Structure
20
12
IV Narrative and Excursus
32
11
V Dating, Emphasis, and Omission
43
11
VI Origin and Social Status
54
11
VII The Greek Template
65
14
VIII Christian Language and Anti-Christian Polemic
79
16
IX Things Seen and Things Read
95
12
X Enemies, Animals, and Stereotypes
107
13
XI Empresses and Eunuchs
120
9
XII Tyranny and Incompetence
129
14
XIII The New Achilles
143
23
XIV Past, Present, and Future
166
21
XV Tacitus, Ammianus, and Macaulay
187
14
APPENDICES
201
54
1 The Text of Ammianus
201
8
2 The Structure of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita
209
4
3 Ammianus' References to the Lost Books
213
5
4 Consular Dates in the Res Gestae
218
4
5 Formal Excursus
222
3
6 Ammianus' Use of Accentual Clausulae
225
6
7 Corrupt and Mistaken Dates
231
6
8 Missing Praefecti Urbis
237
4
9 Maximinus and the Trials at Rome under Valentinian
241
6
10 The Movements of Valens
247
8
Bibliography
255
24
Indexes
279
Names of Persons and Places
279
8
Modern Scholars
287
2
Passages of Ammianus Discussed
289