![]() Nothing further is known for certain of his life. He became an Athenian citizen and rose to be chief magistrate in 145, which qualified him to become a member of the Areopagus, the chief governing body of Athens. He retired or was recalled before the death of Hadrian in 138, and devoted the rest of his life to writing, living at Athens. He also wrote a Tactical Manual for cavalry, and the Circumnavigation of the Black Sea, an account of the voyage he undertook from Trapezus to Dioscurias in 131-2. In ad 134 he drove the invading Alans out of Armenia in a campaign he describes in The Formation Against the Alans. ![]() His command included two Roman legions and numerous auxiliary troops, a rare, perhaps unexampled, responsibility for a Greek at that time. But it was his appointment as governor of the border province of Cappadocia a year later which shows how greatly the Emperor Hadrian trusted his undoubted military and administrative abilities. ![]() His imperial advancement was rapid, and in ad 129 or 130 he achieved the consulship. In about ad 108 he studied philosophy under Epictetus and wrote down his sayings in the Discourses, and a summary of his teachings in a Manual. ![]() THE CAMPAIGNS OF ALEXANDER ADVISORY EDITOR: BETTY RADICEĪrrian, or Lucius Flavius Arrianus, was a Greek born of well-to-do parents at Nicomedia, the capital of the Roman province of Bithynia, probably a few years beforeĬitizenship which enabled Arrian to take up his career in the imperial service. ![]()
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