Identitary Constructs among the Concepts of Monarchy of Themistius and Ammianus Marcellinus
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v3i3p125-137Keywords:
Late Antiquity, Royalty, Themistius, Ammianus Marcellinus.Abstract
In the context of Late Antiquity, we observe the ideals of Royalty which spread throughout the Roman Empire in the 4th century, especially the reports of two writers who shared political events which occurred between the governments of Constantius II and Theodosius (337-395 AD), they are: the philosopher Themistius (317-388 AD) with his political speeches and the military Ammianus Marcellinus (325/330-395 AD) with his work Res Gestae. Throughout our research, we aimed to observe the characteristics of each writer and merge their life experiences to find the convergent and divergent points of their concepts around the imperial responsibilities. Thus, in a time of great socio-political and cultural excitement, two non-Christian writers write their papers in order to remind their audience of the importance of virtues and, because of that, both of them base themselves in examples from the classical tradition; the same way we perceive other elements that permeate the structure of both good rulers: Themistius and Ammianus Marcellinus.
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