The Anabasis of Alexander or, the History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great (Summarized Edition) Enriched edition. A Primary Source on Alexander the Great's Campaigns and Strategy【電子書籍】[ Arrian ]

＜p＞Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander is a lucid, classicizing chronicle of the Macedonian's campaigns from the Hellespont to the Hyphasis. In measured, Xenophontic prose, it marries crisp battle narrativesーGranicus, Issus, Gaugamelaーto analyses of logistics, siegecraft, and provincial settlement, with ethnographic asides and sparing speeches. Rejecting the sensational Cleitarchan stream, Arrian foregrounds Ptolemy and Aristobulus to craft a sober, administratively minded history within the Second Sophistic milieu. Lucius Flavius Arrianus of NicomediaーGreek litterateur and Roman senatorーstudied under Epictetus, later serving as consul and governor of Cappadocia, where he directed campaigns against the Alans. This administrative and military experience, coupled with Stoic moral training, shaped his preference for disciplined generalship and verifiable testimony. Modeling his work on Xenophon, he aimed to rescue Alexander from gossip by rigorous source criticism. Readers of ancient history, ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る