WRITERS, RASCALS AND REBELS: INFORMATION WARS IN THE <i>RES GESTAE</i> OF AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS

Williams, Guy ORCID: 0000-0002-0860-1180 (2024) WRITERS, RASCALS AND REBELS: INFORMATION WARS IN THE <i>RES GESTAE</i> OF AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. The Classical Quarterly. pp. 1-18.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000983882300071x

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This article examines how the historian deals with ‘information’ broadly conceived, especially its acquisition, retention and loss. Ammianus details a complex interplay between those who control information and those who must work with an information deficit. Just as this dialogue plays out within the text, however, so too does it with respect to the author's methodology, which dances between the poles of incomplete and complete information depending on circumstance. Ammianus thus becomes an author as hard to pin down as many of his characters, by turns the omniscient narrator and the dumbfounded participant.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	24 Jan 2024 11:27
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2024 19:23
DOI:	10.1017/s000983882300071x
Open Access URL:	http://10.0.3.249/S000983882300071X
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3177980