Arrian
Subtitle: Anabasis of Alexander, Books I-IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 236)
Contributors: P. A. Brunt (Translator); E. Iliff Robson (Translator)
Edition: Rev Text and Translation edition
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library
Published: December 1976
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780674992603
Subjects: Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Iran; Description and travel; the Great,; Ancient - Greece; Biography / Autobiography; India; History; Early works to 1800; Asia - India & South Asia; Historical - General; Alexander; To 640; Alexander,; 356-323 B.C; 356-323 B.C.
First sentence: Wherever Ptolemy son of Lagus and Aristobulus son of Aristobulus have both given the same accounts of Alexander son of Philip, it is my practice to record what they say as completely true, but where they differ, to select the version I regard as more trustworthy and also better worth telling.