The Landmark Arrian's: The Campaigns of Alexander

The Landmark Arrian is an important new edition of the Campigns of Alexander, the most authoritative ancient account of one of the world's most brilliant military leaders.

During twelve years of continuous campaigns, Alexander conquered an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the edge of modern India. Arrian's history of those conquests, the most reliable and detailed account to emerge from the ancient world, is a work that will fascinate readers interestedin classical studies, the history of warfare, and the origins of East-West tensions that still simmer today in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. Drawing on Ptolemy's memoirs and other sources that have not survived antiquity, Arrian's portrait of Alexander is unmatched for its accuracy and immediacy. Having served as a high Roman official with command of an army, Arrian had a unique perspective on Alexander, imbued with a level of understanding that only firsthand military experience can provide.

In the richly illustrated and annotated style of the Landmark series, The Campaigns of Alexander, which features an enganing and eloquent new translation by Pamela Mensch, brings together some of the Preeminent classics schcolars at work today to create what is certain to be the definitive today of this essential work of history.

James Romm is James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College. He has received fellow-ships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His books include The Edges of the Earch in Ancient Thought and the forthcoming Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire.
Robert B. Strassler is an unaffiliated scholar who holds and honorary Doctorate of Humanities and Letters from Bard College and is chairman of the Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities. He lives in Brokline, Massachusetts.