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Anabasis Alexandri
Anabasis Alexandri, the Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian is the most important
source on Alexander the Great.
The Greek term anabasis referred to
an expedition from a coastline into the interior of a country. The term katabasis referred to a trip from the interior to the coast. So a more literal translation
would be The Expedition of Alexander.
This work on Alexander is the oldest surviving complete account of the Macedonian conqueror.
Arrian was able to use sources which are now lost, such as the contemporary works by Callisthenes (the nephew of Alexander's tutor Aristotle), Onescritus, Nearchus and Aristobulus,
and the slightly later work of Cleitarchus. Most important of all, Arrian had the biography
of Alexander by Ptolemy, one of Alexander's leading generals and possibly his
half-brother.
It is primarily a military history, it has little to say about Alexander's personal life, his role in Greek politics or the
reasons why the campaign against Persia was launched in the first place.
Further reading
- Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt, Penguin Classics, 1958 and numerous subsequent
editions.
External links
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| Sources for Alexander the Great : An Analysis of Plutarch's 'Life' and Arrian's 'Anabasis Alexandrou' (Cambridge Classical Studies)
by N. G. L. Hammond, R. L. Hunter, R. G. Osborne, M. D. Reeve, P. D. Garnsey, M. Millett, D. N. Sedley, and G. C. Horrocks (11 March, 1993) - Cambridge University Press
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... of Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, 1970, 1977, 1983, 1986) Arr. Arrian, Anabasis Alexandrou Atkinson J. E. Atkinson, A Commentary of Q. Curtius Rufus' Historiae Alexandri Magni Books 3 and 4 (Amsterdam, 1980). Beloch K. J. ...
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| City of God (Penguin Classics)
by St. Augustine, David Knowles, and Henry Bettenson (June, 1984) - Penguin Books
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... Arr. - Arrian (Greek historian, c. A.D. 95-172) Anab. - Anabasis (of Alexander the Great) Aug. -Augustine of Hippo (A-D- 354-430) ...
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| Leadership: The Warrior's Art
by Barry R. McCaffrey, Christopher D. Kolenda, and Walter F., Jr. Ulmer (July, 2001) - Army War College Foundation Press
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... The Warrior's Art burning of Athens by Xerxes. See Arrean, Anabasis Alexandri, translated by P. A. Brunt (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Loeb ...
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| The Future of the Body
by Michael Murphy (21 April, 1993) - Tarcher
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... Bulletin o f the Menninger Clinic, 16:159-66. Arrian. 1933 11976]. Anabasis Alexandri. (Two volumes.) Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press. 677 ...
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| Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (Volume VII)
by Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich (March, 1979) - Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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... the "sound of the trumpet," Xenoph. Eq., 9, 11; Arrianus Anabasis AlexandrI, I, 14, 7; 3 Aristot. Rhet., III, 6, p. 1408a, ...
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