In the canon
The Later Roman Empire
Ammianus Marcellinus
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 390 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 500
Amida is burning, and a Roman staff officer slips out through a postern gate in the dark, one of the few to survive the sack of a city he had watched die for seventy-three days. That officer wrote this book.
Thus have I, a Greek by birth, and formerly a soldier, related all the events from the accession of Nerva to the death of Valens,
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