The Mykians of the other side of ancient Maka, the present day region of Balochistan and Sindh had later taken independence because they are not mentioned in the book written by Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns of Alexander the great but he only mentions the Oman side of Maka which he calls " Maketa ".

Hephaestion was certainly in the thick of things with Alexander, for Arrian tells us he was wounded, and Curtius specifically mentions that it was a spear wound in the arm.

Arrian mentions a quarrel with Alexander's secretary, Eumenes, but because of a missing page in the text, the greater part of the detail is missing, leaving only the conclusion, that something persuaded Hephaestion, though against his will, to make up the quarrel.

Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground, and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles ' last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: "... he laid the lock of hair in the hands of his beloved companion, and the whole company was moved to tears.

Of the ancient sources, both Plutarch and Justin mention Barsine and Heracles but Arrian in the Anabasis Alexandri mentions neither.

The Greek historian Arrian mentions ( perhaps anachronistically ) the Caucasian Albanians for the first time in the battle of Gaugamela, where the Albanians, Medes, Cadussi and Sacae were under the command of Atropates.

The palace of Sopeithes which the Greek historian Arrian mentions as the place on the Hydaspes is supposed to be at Bhera.

Arrian, in Anabasis Alexandri, mentions that prior to the Battle of the Granicus, in May 334 BC, the Persian satraps held a council at Zeleia where they discussed how best to confront Alexander the Great.

Greek writers about India such as Megasthenes and Arrian describe many of the states having republican governments akin to those of Greece.

The area does not retain many marks of antiquity, although the eponymous river was noted as Masaitica as early as 137 CE, in a letter from Arrian to Emperor Hadrian.

Modern historians may regret that so many of the earlier works on Alexander have been lost, but may of them are grateful to Arrian for preserving so much.

His Indica served as an important source for many later writers such as Strabo and Arrian.

The expeditions of Alexander were recorded by his court historians and by Arrian ( around AD 175 ) in his Anabasis Alexandri and other chroniclers many centuries after the event.

The story of the siege as describe here is told in many histories, but it is based on the history written by the Roman historian Arrian of Nicomedia, in his Anabasis ( section 4. 18. 4-19. 6 ).

However, Arrian describes the occasion when Alexander and Hephaestion publicly identified themselves with Achilles and Patroclus, who were acknowledged, by Plato and Aeschylus among others, to have been lovers.

In Babylon, he designed the funerary monument to Alexander's general Hephaestion ( died in 324 BC ), which was described by Diodorus Siculus, Arrian, Strabo, Plutarch and others.

His teachings were written down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses.

His most famous pupil, Arrian, studied under him when a young man ( c. 108 AD ) and claimed to have written the famous Discourses from his lecture notes, though some argue they should be considered an original composition by Arrian, comparable to the Socratic literature.

His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian ( author of the Anabasis Alexandri ).

The Enchiridion, or Handbook of Epictetus, (), often shortened to simply " The Handbook ", is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, who had been a pupil of Epictetus at the beginning of the 2nd century.

Category: Works by Arrian

It is told by Arrian that at the Battle of Issus the moment the Persian left went to pieces under Alexander ’ s attack and Darius, in his war-chariot, saw that it was cut off, he incontinently fled – indeed, he led the race for safety.

Strabo and Arrian both record that Side was founded by Greek settlers from Cyme in Aeolis, a region of western Anatolia.

Arrian left Cappadocia shortly before the death of his patron Hadrian, in 138, and there is no evidence for any further public appointments until 145 / 6 when he was elected Archon at Athens, once the city's leading political post but by this time an honorary one.

Arrian was able to use sources which are now mostly lost, such as the contemporary works by Callisthenes ( the nephew of Alexander's tutor Aristotle ), Onesicritus, Nearchus and Aristobulus.

Most important of all, Arrian had the biography of Alexander by Ptolemy, one of Alexander's leading generals and allegedly his half-brother.

Arrian says that Alexander's greatness is worthy of praise and glory, and should be known by future generations.

As a writer, Arrian was obliged by the prevailing literary mores of his time to compose his works in " good Greek ," which meant imitating as closely as possible the grammar and literary style of the Athenian writers of the 5th century BC.

* Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt, Penguin Classics, 1958 and numerous subsequent editions.

* Livius, Arrian of Nicomedia by Jona Lendering

* Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, Teubner monolingual Greek edition, edited by A. G. Roos ( 1907 )

* Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, translated by E. J.

* Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, ( section 4. 18. 4-19. 6 ), Sogdian Rock, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt

* Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, ( Section 7. 5. 1-16 ), translated by John Yardley

* Arrian, Cynegeticus, translated and edited by William Dansey ( 1831 )

* Arrian, Events after Alexander ( from Photius ' Bibliotheca ) translated by John Rooke, edited by Tim Spalding

" Alexander ordered a period of mourning throughout the empire, and Arrian tells us that " Many of the Companions, out of respect for Alexander, dedicated themselves and their arms to the dead man ..." The army, too, remembered him ; Alexander did not appoint anyone to take Hephaestion's place as commander of the Companion cavalry ; he "... wished Hephaestion's name to be preserved always in connexion with it, so Hephaestion's Regiment it continued to be called, and Hephaestion's image continued to be carried before it.

Tiridates or Teridates () is a Persian name, given by Arrian in his Parthica to the brother of Arsaces I, the founder of the Parthian kingdom, whom he is said to have succeeded in about 246 BC.

According to Dr Wilson, part of the name Kamboja ( i. e. Kambi ) is in the Cambistholi of Arrian: the last two syllables, no doubt, represent the Sanscrit Sthala, ' place ,' ' district ;' and the word denotes the dwellers in the Kamba or Kambis country: so Kamboja may be explained as those born in Kamba or Kambas.

J. W. McCrindle says that the modern Afghanistan -- the Kaofue ( Kambu ) of Hiun Tsang was ancient Kamboja, and further says that the name Afghan evidently derives from the Aśavakan, the Assakenoi of Arrian.

Numerous scholars of note now believe that the name Afghan has been derived from Sanskrit Aśvaka or Aśvakan ( Aśvakayana ), the Assakenoi of Arrian.

Cobenzl was a member of the Illuminati under the name of Arrian.