Download This PaperArrian the Personal Historian
18 Pages Posted: 30 Jun 2009
Date Written: December 2005
Abstract
Current scholarship ignores the personal nature of the second preface of Arrian's Anabasis. This preface reveals that the Anabasis can be read as a work about Arrian's own personal identity. Arrian's biographical history allows us to speculate that his identity was in flux throughout his life. By understanding the Anabasis as Arrian's way to claim to be a Greek, we can better interpret his characterization of Alexander.
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Lakin, Kyle Bradley, Arrian the Personal Historian (December 2005). Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics Paper No. 120517, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1426831 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1426831
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