Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica (Oxford Worlds Classics)

Author Arrian

Format Paperback | 432 pages

Dimensions 128 x 196 x 22mm | 299g

Publication date 14 Feb 2013

Publisher Oxford University Press

Language English

ISBN10 0199587248

ISBN13 9780199587247

内容简介

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.