Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality

Much of what we know today of Rome in the fourth century has its source in Res Gestae , the sole surviving work of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. The accuracy of Ammianus' reporting has come under question over the past fifty years, however, and Timothy D. Barnes here offers new grist for skepticism. This is the first book on Ammianus to place equal emphasis on the literary and historical aspects of his writing.