Appendix A: Arrian's sources and reliability

Title: Appendix A: Arrian's sources and reliability
Creator: Baynham, Elizabeth
Relation: The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander p. 325-332
Relation: http://www.randomhouse.com/book/174506/the-landmark-arrian-/9780375423468
Publisher: Pantheon
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2010
Description: Since the nineteenth century Arrian has been consistently perceived as "the best" and the "most reliable" of all our extant Alexander sources; among modern scholars only Georges Radet openly preferred the so-called Alexander vulgate (Diodorus Siculus, Quintus Curtius, and Justin's summary of Pompeius Trogus. Arrian's high estimation in modern opinion has rested largely on his choice of eyewitness sources and his understanding of military and engineering logistics. But does his history deserve its reputation?
Subject: Arrian; military logistics; sources; Roman history
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932938
Identifier: uon:11500
Identifier: ISBN:9780375423468
Language: eng

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