![]() ![]() ![]() Arrian's historyĬoncentrated on what happened, with occasional moral judgements on The historian AB Bosworth therefore declared Arrian unreliable - firstly,īecause his sources were unreliable (especially Ptolemy), and secondlyīecause Arrian then interpreted them incorrectly. ![]() Of Ptolemy (one of Alexander's generals who became ruler of Egypt) andĪritobulus (a military engineer on some of Alexander's campaign - hisĪrrian regarded Alexander as 'a hero totally unlike any other human being'. (perhaps) as a general after he retired, he specialised in writing militaryĪrrian lived four centuries after Alexander, but he did have a number ofĬontemporary sources on which he based his history - especially the accounts Alexander the Great - Sources: Arrian ArrianĪrrian was a Greek who served the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a governor and ![]()
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