Ammianus Marcellinus

…The authors' reading of the torment suffered by their Roman forebears, and steeped in Rome's rich tradition of myth-making and folklore, inevitably attributed its origins to divine retribution. Ammianus Marcellinus, a 4th century soldier and historian we encountered in our last episode, is a clear example of this.…

…They were described by Roman soldier and historian Ammianus Marcellinus as glued to their horses, little known from ancient records, and exceeding in every degree of savagery. Beginning in the 370s AD, the Huns poured out of the east and stormed into the lands of the Goths, casting a long and dark shadow over the shores of the Black Sea.…

…They stop in 229 and 238, respectively. We're not going to have another reliable narrative historian until Ammianus Marcellinus' surviving account begins in 354. So there's no historical narrative, even remotely contemporary, we can use. That's over 100 years where there's no narrative history.…