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31 - Classics
University of Edinburgh
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Book title
Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Cambridge University Press
ISBN of book
9780521842990
Year of publication
2008
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Number of additional authors
0
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
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Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This 378-page monograph is the chief output of a project that occupied the author for eight years from starting his doctoral work in 1998, and is much more expansive and detailed than the thesis of 2002. The text falls into two book-length sections of three and four chapters (ca. 65,000 words each): Part I reassesses Ammianus’ first-person narratives in the light of their allusivity; Part II is a wide-ranging and systematic study of how Ammianus engages intertextually with earlier classical literature. Research involved a detailed knowledge of a considerable body of other primary sources and the corresponding secondary literature.
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