The Loeb Classical Library: History, Volume III : Books 27–31. Excerpta Valesiana

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The Loeb Classical Library: History, Volume III : Books 27–31. Excerpta ValesianaA soldiers chronicle of Rome in decline. Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. AD 325ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of the East Constantius II, and later under the emperor Julian, whom he admired and accompanied against the Alamanni and the Persians. He subsequently settled in Rome, where he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire in the period AD 96378, entitled Rerum

One of the most versatile of Roman poets

[Greek text with facing-page English translation

Dodds in 1960

through Roman imitations and adaptations

Xenophon saw the man differently: his picture is independent and it is the only significant surviving alternative view

and which explores the ambivalence of Plato's pronouncements on poetry through an analysis of his own skill as a writer

Penelope fights to keep war from Ithaca's shores

She can look at nothing without destroying it

and there is a brief section on one of Alexander Pope's Imitations

In response

written in the early-2nd century CE

the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia