In the Landmark Arrian I mostly noted these divergences without arriving at a verdict.
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Callisthenes paid the price of his life for his opposition, and Arrian clearly sympathised with his stand.
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When the Vulgate sources attribute an atrocity to Alexander and Arrian omits it, whom should we believe?
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The professors are also involved in an online Reading Odyssey reading group for Arrian beginning April 11, 2011.
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However I also wrote there that we would be much the poorer if we did not have Arrian either.
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This alternate tradition dramatized the Alexander story in highly diverting ways, but took far less trouble than Arrian did over accuracy.
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Both Plutarch and Arrian believed that Alexander died of a disease, and Plutarch rather brusquely rejected the idea that he was poisoned.
How much does Arrian cover up the faults of Alexander whom he clearly admires and highlight only the good points?
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But Arrian and Plutarch both rightly dismissed the tale as a fiction.
Arrian, Strabo and Plutarch wrote of its beauty and its wealth.
According to Arrian, it was the finest thing he ever did.
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But Arrian, in the eulogistic assessment of Alexander with which he ends the Anabasis, describes it as a carefully thought-out strategy by which Alexander increased his authority and legitimacy among his Asian subjects.
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How good a historian was Arrian?
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There are four more Landmark editions in the works: A new translation of Herodotus by adjunct professor Andrea Purvis of Duke University, with 21 appendixes and 123 maps, will appear in late 2007, to be followed by reader-friendly volumes of Xenophon's Hellenica, Arrian and Polybius.
But in the case of Arrian it could be argued that, against his own better judgment perhaps (the ideal of karteria you mention), he did also see some degree of deterioration, some sort of decline, in Alexander from the ideal Greek-style monarch into an excessively despotic, oriental-style ruler.
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