The Historians of Late Antiquity

by David Rohrbacher

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  Paschoud, F. (1985a) “Le Début de l’Ouvrage Historique d’Olympiodore,” in Studia in honorem Iiro Kajanto, Helsinki: Classical Association of Finland, 185–196.

  Paschoud, F. (1985b) “Eunapiana,” Bonner Historia–Augusta–Colloquium 17: 239–303.

  Paschoud, F. (1989a) “La préface de l’ouvrage historique d’Eunape,” Historia 38: 198–223.

  Paschoud, F. (1989b) “‘Se non è vero, è ben trovato’: tradition littéraire et vérité historique chez Ammien Marcellin,” Chiron 19: 37–54.

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  Ridley, R.T. (1973) “Notes on Julian’s Persian Expedition,” Historia 22: 317–330.

  Rike, R.L. (1987) Apex Omnium: Religion in the Res Gestae of Ammianus, Berkeley: University of California Press.

  Roberts, M. (1988) “The Treatment of Narrative in Late Antique Literature: Ammianus Marcellinus (16.10), Rutilius Namatianus and Paulinus of Pella,” Philologus 132: 181–195.

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