Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander, widely considered the most authoritative history of the brilliant leader’s great conquests, is the latest addition to the acclaimed Landmark series. After twelve years of hard-fought campaigns, Alexander the Great controlled a vast empire that was bordered by the Adriatic sea to the west and modern-day India to the east/5(). He was a Roman citizen by virtue of his father's citizenship, and a pupil of the stoic philosopher Epictetus--a man who advocated high moral standards. The Campaigns of Alexander tells the story of Alexander's campaigns first in Thrace and Greece and then in North Africa and Asia. Arrian The Campaigns of Alexander. Sources | 0 comments. T he Campaigns of Alexander. [1] “Destiny had decreed that Macedon should wrest the sovereignty of Asia from Persia, as Persia once had wrested it from the Medes, and the Medes, in turn, from the Assyrians.” [p. ] [2] “Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
The Campaigns of Alexander (Penguin Classics) Arrian. out of 5 stars. Paperback. $ $ Get it as soon as Friday, Sep FREE Shipping on orders over $25 shipped by Amazon. Arrian's biography used the sources available to the author and fashioned a careful account of Alexander's conquests. The attention to detail is very good and Arrian discusses conflicts of the sources honestly. His work here has become the single most important ancient account of Alexander's campaigns to survive to the modern era. Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account we have, even though it was written over years after Alexander's death. A military commander himself, Arrian had unique insights into the life of the world's greatest conqueror. A portrait of a man of boundless ambition, Arrian succeeds in painting a fully-rounded portrait of a military genius worshipped as a god in his own lifetime.
Arrian’s Alexandrou Anabasis constitutes the most reliable account at our disposal about Alexander the Great's campaign in Asia. However, whereas the work has been thoroughly studied as a historical source, its literary qualities have been relatively neglected, with no autonomous. Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's 'Campaigns of Alexander' is our best source of knowledge of the man and his deeds. Arrain had himself been a military commander, and his record of the exploits of the world's greatest conqueror reveals sympathy for his subject, without the adulation or contempt which so often mar other histories of the time. Arrian's 'Anabasis' also known as 'The Campaigns of Alexander' is an intellectual descendent of Herodotus, Xenophon and Thucydides. It is made up of seven books that detail Alexander's campaigns after he is made king (upon the death of his father Philip II of Macedon) to the time of his own death in Babylon.
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