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- Title
AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS, PRISCUS VE IORDANES'DE ATTİLÂ VE HUN TASVİRLERİ.
- Authors
TÜREL, Tunç
- Abstract
In this paper, the portrayals of the Huns and Attila by three Roman historians from three different centuries are examined. The Huns, who had triggered the Great Migrations left their traces on the Roman Empire, the selfproclaimed centre of civilization. These traces were differently interpreted by historians, who lived in three different periods. For Ammianus Marcellinus, who has been probably the most well-known historian of the Late Antiquity, the "savage" Huns had prepared the way into defeat against the Goths in Adrianople, 378 AD. For Priscus, who had been sent to the camp of Attila in 448 as a part of the political mission, the Huns were almost a civilized tribe, which was being led by a mighty and arrogant Hunnic king. In the 6th century, when the Huns were nothing but mercenaries, Iordanes was describing the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains of the previous century and praising the military leadership qualities of Attila. Whatever their motives may be, Attila and the Huns left an unprecedented fear and awe inspiring marks on this period of the Roman historiography.
- Publication
Hacettepe University Journal of Turkish Studies / HÜTAD Hacettepe Üniversitesi Türkiyat Arastirmalari Dergisi, 2015, Issue 23, p325
- ISSN
1305-5992
- Publication type
Article