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The Body Politic: Performing Character in Ammianus Marcellinus
Mark Humphries 
Canistrum ficis plenum: Hommages à Bertrand Lançon (Revue des Études Tardo-antiques supplement 5), edited by E. Amato, P. De Cicco, & T. Moreau, Pages: 187 - 205
Swansea University Author:
Mark Humphries
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Abstract
Recent scholarship has stressed the sophisticated artistry of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. This article examines an often neglected, or misunderstood, aspect of his narrative: the physical descriptions of his protagonists. Reading these descriptions in the light of late-antique thinking about...
| Published in: | Canistrum ficis plenum: Hommages à Bertrand Lançon (Revue des Études Tardo-antiques supplement 5), edited by E. Amato, P. De Cicco, & T. Moreau |
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| ISBN: | 978-2-9551237 |
| ISSN: | 2115-8266 |
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Association THAT – Textes pour l’Histoire de l’Antiquité Tardive
2018
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36315 |
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| Abstract: |
Recent scholarship has stressed the sophisticated artistry of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. This article examines an often neglected, or misunderstood, aspect of his narrative: the physical descriptions of his protagonists. Reading these descriptions in the light of late-antique thinking about physiognomy, gesture, and deportment suggests that they offer a consistent form of characterisation, through which Ammianus underscores the moral judgments he offers on the individuals who populate his history. |
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| Keywords: |
Ammianus Marcellinus; Julian; Valentinian I; gesture; deportment; physiognomy; narrative |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
187 |
| End Page: |
205 |