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Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica
Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica

Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica

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Arrian; John Atkinson; Martin Hammond
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He was a man like no other man has ever been'

So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, from Egypt to Uzbekistan, and died in Babylon at the age of 32 with further ambitions unfulfilled. Arrian (c. 86-161 AD), a Greek man of letters who had experience of military command and of the highest political office in both Rome and Athens, set out to write the definitive account of Alexander's life and campaigns, published as the Anabasis and its later companion piece the Indica . His work is now our prime and most detailed extant source for the history of Alexander, and it is a dramatic story, fast-moving like its main subject, and told with great narrative skill. Arrian admired Alexander and was fascinated by him, but was also alive to his faults: he presents a compelling account of an exceptional leader, brilliant, ruthless, passionate, and complex.

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Index: 

Introduction
Select Bibliography
Chronology
THE ANABASIS
THE INDICA
Appendix I: The Macedonian army: structures and terminology
Appendix II: The Macedonian and Persian courts and Imperial administration
Appendix III: Finance and linear measures
Explanatory Notes
Notes on the Greek text
Index
Maps

About the author: 

Martin Hammond has taught at St Paul's School, Harrow School, and Eton College, where he was Head of Classics from 1974 to 1980. He was Headmaster of Tonbridge School from 1990 until his retirement in 2005. He has translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations for Penguin, and is the translator of Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War for Oxford World's Classics.; John Atkinson has taught at the universities of Zimbabwe, South Africa in Pretoria, and Cape Town. His publications include commentaries on Curtius Rufus's histories of Alexander, including the introduction and commentary to accompany John Yardley's translation of Book 10 for the Clarendon Ancient History Series.

Product details

ISBN : 9780199587247

Author: 
Arrian; John Atkinson; Martin Hammond
Pages
432 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
136 x 196 mm
Pub date
Feb 2013
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica

Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica

Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica