- Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Back to Medieval Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-395 CE): History, XIV.16: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome, c. 400 CE. : The following was written only about a generation before Alaric plundered Rome in 410 CE. Ammianus Marcellinus, who observed Rome on a visit, saw the city as full of emptiness, shallowness, and as lacking ...www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ammianus-history14.html
- Ammianus Marcellinus on the Geography of the Pontus Euxinus Jan Willem Drijvers (Department of History, University of Groningen) Das eitle Bemuhen um Allwissenheit, wie es der Fluch aller encyclopadischen Bildung ist, und vor allem der Fluch jener unseligen, auch auf dem geistigen Gebiet, in der Trummerwelt einer gr ssern Vergangenheit kummerlich hausenden Generationen war, zeigt sich bei Ammian.www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/drijvers.html