Alan Ross completed his DPhil at Wolfson College, Oxford. He subsequently held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, and a Marie Curie Fellowship at University College Dublin, Ireland, where he remains as a Visiting Research Fellow in Classics. He now teaches Ancient History at the University of Southampton, UK.
* 1: In Search of a Latin Julian
* 1.1 Discourse on Julian before Ammianus
* 1.2 Narratology and historiography
* 1.3 Intertextuality and historiography
* 1.4 Overview
* 2: The Narrator and the Participant: Gallus and Silvanus in
Preparation for Julian
* 2.1 Structure, selection of material, and interpretation
* 2.2 Gallus - a familiar tyrant
* 2.3 Gallus' downfall and sympathy
* 2.4 Internal narration the participant as guide
* 2.5 Plotting against Silvanus - the omniscient narrator
* 2.6 The participant, Ursicinus, and the tradition
* 3: Julian' s Elevation: Tradition and Innovation in Speech and
Narrative
* 3.1 Imperial elevations in Late Antiquity and Ammianus' speech scenes
* 3.2 A failed adoption
* 3.3 Legitimizing Julian
* 4: Strasbourg: Legitimizing Julian
* 4.1 Between contemporary sources and classical tradition
* 4.2 Military narrative in panegyric and historiography
* 4.3 Preparations for battle - competing interpretations
* 4.4 Battle narrative
* 4.5 Conclusions: legitimizing Julian and preparation for the
acclamation
* 5: Narrating Failure: Julian and Ammianus in Persia
* 5.1 Persia and the tradition of participation
* 5.2 Ammianus' first person in Persia
* 5.3 Between praise and blame - the epideictic tradition
* 5.4 Omens
* 5.5 Julian as historian - the interpretation of exempla
* 5.6 Completing the Romanization of Julian
* 6: Epilogue
* Endmatter
* Appendix. The Res Gestae's Discourse on Greek
* Bibliography
* Index
