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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alan J. Ross (Research Fellow, University College Dublin)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.438kg ISBN: 9780198784951ISBN 10: 0198784953 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 16 June 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: In Search of a Latin Julian 1.1 Discourse on Julian before Ammianus 1.2 Narratology and historiography 1.3 Intertextuality and historiography 1.4 Overview 2: The Narrator and the Participant: Gallus and Silvanus in Preparation for Julian 2.1 Structure, selection of material, and interpretation 2.2 Gallus - a familiar tyrant 2.3 Gallus' downfall and sympathy 2.4 Internal narration the participant as guide 2.5 Plotting against Silvanus - the omniscient narrator 2.6 The participant, Ursicinus, and the tradition 3: Julian' s Elevation: Tradition and Innovation in Speech and Narrative 3.1 Imperial elevations in Late Antiquity and Ammianus' speech scenes 3.2 A failed adoption 3.3 Legitimizing Julian 4: Strasbourg: Legitimizing Julian 4.1 Between contemporary sources and classical tradition 4.2 Military narrative in panegyric and historiography 4.3 Preparations for battle - competing interpretations 4.4 Battle narrative 4.5 Conclusions: legitimizing Julian and preparation for the acclamation 5: Narrating Failure: Julian and Ammianus in Persia 5.1 Persia and the tradition of participation 5.2 Ammianus' first person in Persia 5.3 Between praise and blame - the epideictic tradition 5.4 Omens 5.5 Julian as historian - the interpretation of exempla 5.6 Completing the Romanization of Julian 6: Epilogue Endmatter Appendix. The Res Gestae's Discourse on Greek Bibliography IndexReviewsthis book marks an important addition to the literary analysis of Ammianus text, and no-one with an interest either in the emperor Julian or in Ammianus himself as author and historian can afford not to read it. * David Woods, Acta Classica * this book marks an important addition to the literary analysis of Ammianus text, and no-one with an interest either in the emperor Julian or in Ammianus himself as author and historian can afford not to read it. David Woods, Acta Classica this book marks an important addition to the literary analysis of Ammianus text, and no-one with an interest either in the emperor Julian or in Ammianus himself as author and historian can afford not to read it. * David Woods, Acta Classica * The book provides a better understanding of Ammianus' account of Julian, and of Julian's significance in the work of the historian as a whole. It provides further means to verify the credibility of individual sources and their application by the historian ... Ross's book gives a better understanding of the choice of the facts handed down, the way in which they are presented, and their evaluation by Ammianus, and is thus also important to the historian. * Joachim Szidat, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Author InformationAlan Ross completed his DPhil at Wolfson College, Oxford. He subsequently held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, and a Marie Curie Fellowship at University College Dublin, Ireland, where he remains as a Visiting Research Fellow in Classics. He now teaches Ancient History at the University of Southampton, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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