biography
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Arrian
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Lat Flavius Arrianus
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pronunciation:
[arian]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.95–180)
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| biography:
| Greek historian, a native of Nicomedia in Bithynia. An officer in the Roman army, in 136 he was appointed prefect of Cappadocia (legate in 131–7). His chief work is the Anabasis Alexandrou, or history of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, which has survived almost entire. His accounts of the people of India, and of a voyage round the Euxine, are valuable for studies of ancient geography. |
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