Introduction
Published • Dec 21, 2021
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Authors:
Jan Willem Drijvers
Abstract
Abstract The Introduction offers a survey of the primary non-Christian and Christian sources available for a reconstruction of the short reign of Jovian. The most important source obviously is Book 25 of Res Gestae of the pagan Ammianus Marcellinus. He presents a gloomy picture of the person and rei...