WRITERS, RASCALS AND REBELS: INFORMATION WARS IN THE RES GESTAE OF AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS

Guy Williams
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This article examines how the historian deals with ‘information’ broadly conceived, especially its acquisition, retention and loss. Ammianus details a complex interplay between those who control information and those who must work with an information deficit. Just as this dialogue plays out within the text, however, so too does it with respect to the author's methodology, which dances between the poles of incomplete and complete information depending on circumstance. Ammianus thus becomes an author as hard to pin down as many of his characters, by turns the omniscient narrator and the dumbfounded participant.
作家、流氓和叛逆者:安米阿努斯-马尔凯利努斯《逝者如斯》中的信息战
本文探讨了历史学家如何处理广义上的 "信息",尤其是信息的获取、保留和丢失。阿米阿努斯详细描述了信息控制者与信息匮乏者之间复杂的相互作用。正如文本中的对话一样,作者的写作方法也是如此,他根据具体情况在不完整信息和完整信息两极之间游走。阿米亚努斯因此成为了一位难以捉摸的作者,就像他笔下的许多人物一样,既是全知全能的叙述者,又是茫然无措的参与者。
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