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Ancient History Sourcebook: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ammianus-history14.html

An excerpt from the Roman History XIV.16, from the Davis translation, in which Ammianus criticizes Rome as shallow and culturally empty.

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Forum Romanum: Ammianus Marcellinus

http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/ammianus_bio.html

Latin text of Res Gestae a Fine Corneli Taciti, as well as a list of related sites.

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Histos: Ammianus Marcellinus on the Geography of the Pontus Euxinus

http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/drijvers.html

Paper by Jan Willem Drijvers of the University of Groningen considering Marcellinus' digression on the Black Sea in the Res Gestae as a literary rather than reference piece.

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The Battle of Adrianople

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/378adrianople.html

Excerpt from the Yonge 1862 translation (History, XXXI.12-14), on the Roman defeat.

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