Arrian
2nd century Greek historian, official and philosopher · Writers · Lived 89 to 175 · aged 86
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Something wrong?He wrote the definitive account of Alexander the Great's campaigns fifteen centuries after they happened - and for two thousand years since, historians have trusted his version over everyone else's.
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, He also buried the Persian commanders and the Greek mercenaries who were killed fighting on the side of the enemy.
Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …
This also is remarkable in India, that all Indians are free, and no Indian at all is a slave. In this the Indians agree with the Lacedaemonians.
About this person
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.
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