Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints: Ammianus and the Historia Augusta
- 237 pages
- 9 hours of reading
This classic study builds on the work of Dessau in resssessing the nature of the Historia Augusta, in particular establishing the influence of Ammianus Marcellinus on the work, which Syme argues was the product of a single author writing in at the end of the fourth or start of the fifth century.