Anabasis Alexandri

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Anabasis Alexandri

Arrian ; with an English translation by E. Iliff Robson

（The Loeb classical library, 236, 269）

W. Heinemann , G.P. Putnam, 1929-1933

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History of Alexander and Indica

Anabasis of Alexander

Αναβασεως Αλεξανδρου

Ινδικη

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Parallel text in Greek and English

"Arrian : in two volumes ; 1-2" appears in later printing

Later printing also published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

Contents. 1. Books I-IV -- 2. Books V-VII, Indica, books VIII

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On the march to greatness. Arrian (Flavius Arrianus), of the period ca. AD 95–175, was a Greek historian and philosopher of Nicomedia in Bithynia. Both a Roman and an Athenian citizen, he was governor of the Roman province of Cappadocia 132–137, and repelled an invasion of the Alani in 134. He retired then to Athens (where he was archon in 148–149) and later to Nicomedia. Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander in seven books is the best account we have of Alexander’s adult life. Indica (a description of India and of Nearchus’ voyage therefrom) was to be a supplement. A student of Epictetus, Arrian took notes at his lectures and published them (in eight books, of which we have four, The Discourses) and also the Encheiridion or Manual of Epictetus. Both works are available in the Loeb edition of Epictetus (LCL 131, 218). The Loeb Classical Library edition of Arrian is in two volumes.

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