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- Title
An Unnoticed Reminiscence of Aeneid 10.517-20 at Ammianus Marcellinus 22.12.6.
- Authors
O'Brien, Peter
- Abstract
The article discusses a reference to the Latin poem "Aeneid" by the poet Virgil in the historical work "Res Gestae" by the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus. The author states that the reference has not received any academic discussion and queries what the reference reveals about the historian's views and interpretations regarding the military campaign of the Roman emperor Julian into Persia in 363 AD.
- Subjects
MARCELLINUS, Ammianus, ca. 325-391; RES Gestae (Book); HISTORY of Rome (Italy) -- To 476; AENEID; VIRGIL, 70 B.C.-19 B.C.
- Publication
Mnemosyne, 2007, Vol 60, Issue 4, p662
- ISSN
0026-7074
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1163/156852507X195457