04-23-2021, 11:24 AM
(04-22-2021, 10:52 PM)Colonel Chabert Wrote: the other Greek language historians of the time (Sozomen, Socrates) didn't use Ammianus as a source either so perhaps his work wasn't as readily accessible as I imagined.
Yes, possibly. Or perhaps they just didn't rate him all that highly, for some reason?
Olympiodorus was a bit of a polymath, and a well travelled man. He almost certainly went to the western empire himself, perhaps in AD425 as part of the eastern expedition against the usurper Ioannes, so he could plausibly have read Ammianus's history in Rome.
Nathan Ross
