The Sun of Rome is Set: Memories of the Battle of Cannae and the Anxieties of Ammianus Marcellinus and Claudian (original) (raw)

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), 2021

Abstract

One of the worst military disasters in the Roman history was the Battle of Cannae (216 BCE) which occurred in the Second Punic War. The battle left such an impact with its trauma that any military defeat in the following centuries was comparable to Cannae. Two Roman authors, Ammianus Marcellinus and Claudian, invoked Hannibal and the Battle of Cannae in their readers’ minds to impart the defeats and disasters for the later empire. This article examines how these two men used the memory of Cannae to make sense of a world they believed was decaying.

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