The Loeb Classical Library: History, Volume I : Books 14–19

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The Loeb Classical Library: History, Volume I : Books 14–19A soldiers chronicle of Rome in decline. Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. AD 325ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of the East Constantius II, and later under the emperor Julian, whom he admired and accompanied against the Alamanni and the Persians. He subsequently settled in Rome, where he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire in the period AD 96378, entitled Rerum

spends the night in his own palace and lays plans for his awesome revenge

and his interest in the sensational

and of cutting people slack

It narrates the death of Hecuba's daughter Polyxena

This feeling is reinforced by the College that operates in the same building and hosts delinquent minors

Και το χάσμα ανάμεσα σ’ αυτούς που αγαπά βαθαίνει

Στα δεξιά του κάθισε μια χαριτωμένη νεαρή γυναίκα

Drawing on the full range of Greek philosophy and Roman history

ultimately leaving it to his readers to make up their own minds

The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s

The literary parts of the Introduction and the Commentary are accessible to all

He also provides a virtual tour of the political cityscape of ancient Athens