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Articles

• Tritle, Lawrence

This paper examines the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus in thelight of historical geography, particularly its sub-categories of frontiers, populationmigrations, and human geography. The historian’s account of the Roman-Gothic War (AD 377-378), especially the fight for control of the Thraciantown of Beroe, reveals the contribution to historical understanding of the rolesof frontiers and population migrations. Similarly, a close reading of Ammianusand his description of the Goths and their society reveals an appreciation forthat dimension of historical geography today called human geography, or thestudy of peoples and their environments.

• History and Archaeology

• Ιστορία

Ammianus Marcellinus, Ιστορική γεωγραφία των Βαλκανίων

This paper was first presented at the International Symposium of Historical Geographyentitled “Roads and Crossroads of the Balkans from Antiquity to the EuropeanUnion”, held at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 25-27 September 1995 andorganized by Professors E. P. Dimitriadis, V. Katsaros, and A. P. Lagopoulos. I would like tothank them for their invitation to present this paper and participate in a most informativeand interesting conference.