Ammianus Marcellinus and his World

3 credits · Graduate

This course approaches the history and culture of the fourth century AD through its most important historian, Ammianus Marcellinus. The course will focus on (but not be limited to) a careful study of Books 14-25 of the Res Gestae, which span the reign of Ammianus' hero, Julian the Apostate. PREREQUISITES: Three years of undergraduate Latin or the permission of the instructor. FORMATS: Seminar