Table of Contents

The Later Roman EmpirePreface
Introduction
Further Reading
Family Tree of Constantine the Great
Introductory Note

The Later Roman Empire
Book 14
Book 15
Book 16
Book 17
Book 18
Book 19
Book 20
Book 21
Book 22
Book 23
Book 24
Book 25
Book 26
Book 27
Book 28
Book 29
Book 30
Book 31

Notes on the Text
Note on Officials and their Titles
Notes on PersonsDates of Emperors
Geographical key
Maps
General Map
Monuments of Rome
Map A: Gaul, Germany, and the Rhine
Map B: The Danube, Italy and Thrace
Map C: The East and Persia
Map D: Asia Minor

About the Author

Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, continuing the histories of Tacitus from AD 96 down to his own day. The first thirteen of his thirty-one books are lost- the remainder describe AD 354 - 378.


Walter Hamilton translated Plato's Symposium, the Gorgias, Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII for Penguin Classics.

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Professor of Classics at Reading University. His books include Suetonius- the Scholar and his Caesars.