M.A. (Latin) / I found the doctoral thesis of Pauw, "Karaktertekening by Ammianus Marcellinus", an interesting study. In particular I was fascinated by the table given in the appendix, in which the number of times both the positive and the negative characteristics in Ammianus 1's portrayal of four emperors, who reigned for a reasonable time, and four of the more important minor characters are indicated in the various devices of character portrayal open to the author. I wondered if such a wide variety and frequency of these direct and indirect methods of character depiction could be identified in the work of an historian like Livy, who is the first historiographer of the old annalistic tradition, whose work is extant in significant quantity (Lintott, p. 234)...