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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Arrian was a Greek from Nicomedia who lived under Roman rule in the second century AD, serving as both military commander and public servant. Trained as a philosopher, he turned to history and produced the Anabasis of Alexander, a reconstruction of the Macedonian king's conquests drawn from older sources now lost. Scholars long considered it the single most reliable narrative of Alexander's wars, prizing Arrian's sober method over more sensational rivals. That consensus has softened recently as historians question his editorial choices, but his account remains the skeleton on which most reconstructions hang. He lived into his seventies, leaving behind not just the Anabasis but works on philosophy and military tactics that survived the centuries in his wake.