Authors: Arrian, Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator), J. R. Hamilton (Introduction), J. R. Hamilton (Noted by), J. R. Hamilton
ISBN-13: 9780140442533, ISBN-10: 0140442537
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: October 1976
Edition: REV
Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's 'Campaigns of Alexander' is our best source of knowledge of the man and his deeds. Arrain had himself been a military commander, and his record of the exploits of the world's greatest conqueror reveals sympathy for his subject, without the adulation or contempt which so often mar other histories of the time. Arrain's unaffected style of writing, with its matter-of-fact tone, offsets the remarkable career and paradoxical nature of Alexander, giving us a fair, clear report about a man who was worshipped as a god in his own lifetime.