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The Body Politic: Performing Character in Ammianus Marcellinus

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Canistrum ficis plenum: Hommages à Bertrand Lançon (Revue des Études Tardo-antiques supplement 5), edited by E. Amato, P. De Cicco, & T. Moreau, Pages: 187 - 205

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Recent scholarship has stressed the sophisticated artistry of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. This article examines an often neglected, or misunderstood, aspect of his narrative: the physical descriptions of his protagonists. Reading these descriptions in the light of late-antique thinking about...

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Published in: Canistrum ficis plenum: Hommages à Bertrand Lançon (Revue des Études Tardo-antiques supplement 5), edited by E. Amato, P. De Cicco, & T. Moreau
ISBN: 978-2-9551237
ISSN: 2115-8266
Published: Association THAT – Textes pour l’Histoire de l’Antiquité Tardive 2018
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