Hamilton, 1971 All rights reserved Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pic Set in Monotype Garamond Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser Contents Extract from the Translator’s Preface 7 List of abbreviations 11 Introduction O 41 Book One Book Two IOT Book Three 148 Book Four 201 Book Five 255 Book Six 3OI 00 Book Seven Appendix A 399 Appendix B 403 Bibliography 406 Sources 411 Map of Greece 4M Map of Alexander’s Empire 416 Map of Asia Minor 418 Index 419 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation From the Translator’s Preface After the end of the Alexandrian age, from early in the second century before Christ, Greek literature rapidly de¬ clined, and during the hundred years - say from 50 b.c. Hamilton PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017 India Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, Cnr Rosedale and Airborne Roads, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England First published as Arrian: The Life of Alexander the Great 1958 Revised and enlarged edition published 1971 28 Copyright © Aubrey de Selincourt, 1958 Introduction and Notes copyright © J. ' ARRIAN THE CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER TRANSLATED BY AUBREY DE SELINCOURT Revised, with a new introduction and notes bj J. He is the author of Plutarch’s 'AlexanderA Commentary (1969) and Alexander the Great (1973). who has revised this edition and added an introduc¬ tion and notes, was until his retirement in 1987 Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland, New ea and. A schoolmaster of genius for twenty-six years, he retired in 1947 to the Isle of Wight where he lived until his death in 1962. He was born in 1896 and educated at Rugby, and University College, Oxford. Aubrey de Selincourt, scholar and translator, translated Livy’s The Early History of Rome (Books I-V) and The War with Hannibal (Books XXI-XXX), The Histories of Herodotus and The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian, all for the Penguin Classics. The surviving works of Arrian’s Athenian period are a handbook, On the Chase, The Campaigns of Alexander in seven books, and the Indica, an account of the voyage of Alexander’s fleet from India to the Persian Gulf. Nothing further is known for certain of his life. He became an Athenian citizen and rose to be chief magistrate in 145, which qualified him to become a member of the Areopagus, the chief governing body of Athens. He retired or was recalled before the death of Hadrian in 138, and devoted the rest of his life to writing, living at Athens. He also wrote a Tactical Manual for cavalry, and the Circumnavigation of the Black Sea, an account of the voyage he undertook from Trapezus to Dioscurias in 131-2. In ad 134 he drove the invading Alans out of Armenia in a campaign he describes in The Formation Against the Alans. His command included two Roman legions and numerous auxiliary troops, a rare, perhaps unexampled, responsibility for a Greek at that time. But it was his appointment as governor of the border province of Cappadocia a year later which shows how greatly the Emperor Hadrian trusted his undoubted military and administrative abilities. His imperial advancement was rapid, and in ad 129 or 130 he achieved the consulship. In about ad 108 he studied philosophy under Epictetus and wrote down his sayings in the Discourses, and a summary of his teachings in a Manual. His father had been granted Roman citizenship which enabled Arrian to take up his career in the imperial service. PENGUIN CLASSICS THE CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER ADVISORY EDITOR: BETTY RADICE Arrian, or Lucius Flavius Arrianus, was a Greek born of well-to-do parents at Nicomedia, the capital of the Roman province of Bithynia, probably a few years before ad 90. U I N 0 CLASSICS ARRIAN The Campaigns ofAlexander ' * r.
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