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Mnemosyne, 2019
AbstractArrian is unique in presenting Alexander’s invasion of Scythia as a failure. He does so to highlight a change in Alexander’s behavior after he has successfully procured sovereignty over Persia and to announce the moral themes of the second half of the Anabasis.
Daniel W. Leon
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AbstractArrian is unique in presenting Alexander’s invasion of Scythia as a failure. He does so to highlight a change in Alexander’s behavior after he has successfully procured sovereignty over Persia and to announce the moral themes of the second half of the Anabasis.
Daniel W. Leon
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Patterns of Religious Content and Narrative Arrangement in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
Mnemosyne, 2023This study examines three patterns of religious content in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander: (a) ritual reports, (b) religious material culture, and (c) omens.
Vasileios Liotsakis
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The Multifunctionality of Source Citations and Indirect Speech in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
Histos, 2023Scholars tend to regard the citations of the Anabasis of Alexander as an expression of Arrian’s uncertainty or of the fact that he was drawing his information from sources other than Ptolemy and Aristobulus, while no efforts have been made to explore the
Vasileios Liotsakis
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ARRIAN'S EKTAXIS – TEXT, TRANSLATION, COMMENTARY
The Classical Review, 2023that owe a significant portion of their beginnings to divinely ordained origins. Drawing a conclusion similar to Roskam’s, Van der Stockt sees Plutarch as a promoter of the civitas Dei as a realm of justice, not on earth, but in heaven, and thus one to ...
Philip Rance
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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 2023
On the basis of a newly discovered ethical code of a Hellenistic king, the Symposia that deal with kingship in the Letter of Aristeas get a new perspective.
D. Mendels
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On the basis of a newly discovered ethical code of a Hellenistic king, the Symposia that deal with kingship in the Letter of Aristeas get a new perspective.
D. Mendels
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The World of Alexander in Perspective. Contextualizing Arrian
Classica et Orientalia, 2022This volume is a collection of papers that have been given at an international conference in December 2019 in Bregenz, Austria. They focus on Arrian of Nicomedia’s Anabasis Alexandrou which is our main source for the life and reign of Alexander the Great.
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ARRIAN, ANABASIS 1.17.10–12 AND THE HISTORY OF FOURTH-CENTURY EPHESUS
Classical Quarterly, 2022Arrian's account of Alexander's brief time at Ephesus (Anab. 1.17.10–12) is shot through with political and factional violence, but he nevertheless concludes that Alexander received acclaim for what he did in the city.
Joshua Nudell
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