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Sinopsis

Alexander the Great crossed into Asia at the age of twenty-two with a kingdom behind him, the Persian Empire before him, and an ambition vast enough to redraw the known world.

The Campaigns of Alexander is Arrian of Nicomedia’s enduring account of the man who shattered the power of Persia and carried the Macedonian army from the Hellespont to the edge of India. Drawing chiefly upon the lost histories of Ptolemy and Aristobulus—men who accompanied Alexander on his expedition—Arrian created the most disciplined and influential surviving narrative of the conquest.

Across all seven books, the campaign unfolds with extraordinary immediacy: the crossing into Asia; the battles of the Granicus, Issus, and Gaugamela; the sieges of Tyre and Gaza; the pursuit and death of Darius; the hard wars in Bactria and Sogdiana; the invasion of India; the army’s refusal at the Hyphasis; the disastrous march through the Gedrosian desert; and Alexander’s final days at Babylon.

Yet this is more than a record of victories. Arrian shows the intelligence, speed, nerve, and relentless personal courage that made Alexander nearly unbeatable. He also preserves the darker transformation of the conqueror: the killing of Cleitus, the execution of Philotas, the murder of Parmenion, the adoption of Persian court customs, the demand for prostration, and the growing distance between the king and the Macedonians who had followed him across the world.

Arrian admires Alexander without surrendering judgment. His history asks whether conquest can ever satisfy the appetite that drives it—and whether a man capable of mastering nations can master himself.

This Lyceum Press edition presents all seven books in a new English translation from the Greek text of A. G. Roos. Clear, vigorous, and attentive to Arrian’s moral and military precision, it restores one of antiquity’s greatest histories to the force of a living narrative.

For readers of ancient history, military strategy, classical literature, and the life of Alexander the Great, The Campaigns of Alexander remains indispensable: the fullest surviving account of an expedition that changed the world, and a lasting study of command, ambition, glory, and ruin.

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