{"id":17452,"date":"2023-08-02T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=17452"},"modified":"2024-02-17T09:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T14:08:35","slug":"guide-ammianus-marcellinus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/08\/guide-ammianus-marcellinus\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Ammianus Marcellinus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is aimed at providing a guide for reading sequentally through ethnographic passages in Ammianus Marcellinus\u2019 late fourth century work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isaurians as a bandit-people &#8211; 14.2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/01\/isaurians-ammianus-marcellinus-on-their-incursions-and-banditry-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Arabians \/ Saracens &#8211; 14.4 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/01\/saracens-ammianus-marcellinus-on-their-customs-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Romans &#8211; 14.6 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/08\/romans-ammianus-marcellinus-on-decline-in-the-lifestyles-of-some-elites-and-of-the-common-people-of-rome-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Celts \/ Gauls drawing on Timagenes of Alexandria (first century BCE) &#8211; 15.9-15.12 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/06\/celts-gauls-timagenes-of-alexandria-on-the-gauls-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Egyptians &#8211; 22.23 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/08\/egyptians-ammianus-on-their-dark-complexion-and-insubordinate-behaviour-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Thracians and Black Sea peoples &#8211; 22.8 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/08\/thracians-and-other-black-sea-peoples-ammianus-marcellinus-on-their-savage-character-and-roman-control-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Persians and neighbouring eastern peoples &#8211; 23.6 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/07\/persians-and-neighbouring-eastern-peoples-ammianus-marcellinus-on-their-location-and-persian-ways-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Persian wisdom in connection with Zoroaster, Hystaspes, and the Magians &#8211; 23.6.25-36 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/01\/persian-wisdom-ammianus-marcellinus-on-zoroaster-hystaspes-and-the-magians-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Thracians and Black Sea peoples (again) &#8211; 27.4 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/08\/thracians-and-other-black-sea-peoples-ammianus-marcellinus-on-their-savage-character-and-roman-control-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Libyans, Maurians and Ausourianians in Africa &#8211; 27.9 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/libyans-maurians-and-asourianians-ammianus-marcellinus-on-their-savage-behaviour-and-banditry-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Isaurians as a bandit-people (again) &#8211; 27.9 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/01\/isaurians-ammianus-marcellinus-on-their-incursions-and-banditry-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Romans (again) &#8211; 28.4 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/08\/romans-ammianus-marcellinus-on-decline-in-the-lifestyles-of-some-elites-and-of-the-common-people-of-rome-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Libyans, Maurians and Ausourianians in Africa (again) &#8211; 28.6 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/libyans-maurians-and-asourianians-ammianus-marcellinus-on-their-savage-behaviour-and-banditry-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Huns and Alans from the Eurasian steppe &#8211; 31.2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/08\/huns-and-alans-ammianus-marcellinus-on-savage-nomadic-threats-late-fourth-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is aimed at providing a guide for reading sequentally through ethnographic passages in Ammianus Marcellinus\u2019 late fourth century work: Isaurians as a bandit-people &#8211; 14.2 (link) Arabians \/ Saracens &#8211; 14.4 (link) Romans &#8211; 14.6 (link) Celts \/ Gauls drawing on Timagenes of Alexandria (first century BCE) &#8211; 15.9-15.12 (link) Egyptians &#8211; 22.23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-guides-ethnographic-passages-ancient-author","category-ammianus-marcellinus-roman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17452"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18219,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions\/18219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}