Creating the Enemy: Ammianus Marcellinus' Double Digression on Huns and Alans
| Autor: | D.W.P. Burgersdijk |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universiteitsbibliotheek |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Archeology History Alterity media_common.quotation_subject Language and Linguistics Barbarism 050602 political science & public administration 0601 history and archaeology Narrative Classics media_common Literature Civilization 060102 archaeology biology business.industry 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts biology.organism_classification Digression 0506 political science Roman Empire Emperor Ideology business The Ancient World Europe and its Worlds before 1800 |
| Zdroj: | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 59(1), 111-132. Wiley-Blackwell Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 59, 1, pp. 111-132 Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 59, 111-132 |
| ISSN: | 0076-0730 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.2041-5370.2016.12021.x |
| Popis: | Ammianus Marcellinus' excursus on the Huns and Alans in the thirty-first and last book of his Res Gestae, in which he creates an image of an enemy that threatens the Roman empire, mainly serves to enhance the suspense in the final part of his narrative. It contains a message to the reigning emperor to defend the borders between barbarism and civilization. The narratological motifs and ideological purposes in the portraiture of foreign peoples, which draw on older Greek as well as Latin ethnographical templates, prevail over historical accuracy. The article addresses the topic from the theoretical framework of alterity, and explores the ethnographical and geographical models on which Ammianus based his largely fictitious account. |
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