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Anabasis of Alexander

Anabasis Alexandrou

Drawing chiefly on the now-lost eyewitness accounts of Alexander's own general Ptolemy and the engineer Aristobulus, Arrian's history became the most trusted ancient account of Alexander's campaigns, prized for weighing its sources rather than simply repeating legend.

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