The Later Roman Empire

(a.D. 354-378)

Ammianus Marcellinus author Andrew Wallace-Hadrill editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:29th May '86

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The Later Roman Empire cover

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.

ISBN: 9780140444063

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 22mm

Weight: 351g

512 pages