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Biographical note: Wiebke Manzek, Universität Rostock. Main description: Ammian gilt als der größte Historiker der Spätantike. Doch seine geographisch-ethnographischen Exkurse wurden lange als imitierte Gelehrsamkeit und überflüssige Unterbrechung des Geschichtsverlaufs unterschätzt. In den klassischen Lehren der Rhetorik, der metaphorischen Lesung der Landschaften, der Konstituierung von Erinnerungsräumen und Gegenwelten zum Imperium Romanum deckt die Autorin den Schlüssel für das Verständnis des Gesamtwerks auf: Geschichtsverständnis und Diskurse über geographisches Wissen bedingen einander. Dadurch erscheint auch Ammians schriftstellerische Leistung in einem neuen Licht. Main description: Ammianus is regarded as the greatest historian of late antiquity. Yet his geographic and ethnographic digressions were long underestimated as examples of imitative scholarship and as undue interruptions to the historical narrative. The author of this volume believes that the key to understanding Ammianuss work as a whole lies in his teaching of classical rhetoric, his metaphoric reading of landscapes, and the creation of spaces for memory and counterworlds to the Imperium Romanum. In this way, historical understanding and digressions concerning geographic knowledge must be viewed as interdependent features of the text. The author thus casts a new light on Ammianuss literary achievements.

Literature and history --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Landscapes in literature. --- Metaphor in literature. --- Geographical perception --- Ethnology --- Public spaces --- Memory --- Littérature et histoire --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Paysages dans la littérature --- Métaphore dans la littérature --- Perception géographique --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Espaces publics --- Mémoire --- Study and teaching --- History --- Social aspects --- Etude et enseignement --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Ammianus Marcellinus. --- Rome --- Historiography. --- Historiographie --- Landscapes in literature --- Metaphor in literature --- Historiography --- Littérature et histoire --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Paysages dans la littérature --- Métaphore dans la littérature --- Perception géographique --- Mémoire --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Cities and towns --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Landscape in literature --- Environmental perception --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Perception --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Space perception --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Social aspects&delete& --- Rhetoric