The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great

Very good translation . The good maps allow to follow the campaigns very well . Recommended

Changed my idea after I placed an order for the same title, but the cheaper one. Very very pleased for this purchase. Although it is 10 quids more expensive than the cheaper one, it is well worth the money. Excellent quality paper, clear print, nice maps for facilitating reading. Very happy with my choice!!!

What I liked most of this textbook is the number of maps, extremely facilitating the reading of Arrian's account. It absolutely adds to the accessibility of the story and allows the reader to follow -almost literally- Alexander's every step. It makes the whole story thereby much more interesting, also for readers who are less familiar with Arrian as a source.

An outstanding work by one of the greatest of classical historians, the Anabasis Alexandri explains how and why Alexander still fascinates us today. The excellent translation is backed up by superb essays on various aspects of Alexander's life and times. A superb work which all students of history should read.

This latest instalment in the Landmark series makes this ancient book very easily accessible to the lay reader. It recounts the conquests of Alexander II of Macedon from the point where he takes control of the Army from his father till his death. Arrian is a good storyteller who was also a senior commander in the Roman military, giving him a valuable perspective on Alexander's manoeuvres. In addition to a very readable translation this edition includes: +Frequent maps explaining where the action is +A number of battle maps to help understand the text +lots of useful footnotes giving some perspectives on biases that the author might have had in recounting a specific episode, or reference to newer findings/if this matches with archaeological evidence. The footnotes definitely are in the right proportion +Summary of each section in the side column-really useful if you get lost or want to pick up the book after a break and don't recall where you were +Framing of the story with forewords/appendix explaining Alexander's rise and the break-up of his empire. +Large variety of appendices if you want to know more about specific topics like weights and measures, the Army and tactics, theories on Alexander's death and much more In summary-this is the best English language edition of this book bar none. It doesn't overpower and is a very enjoyable read.

Just startint to read this version of Arrian, which is very much more scholarly and comprehensive than the previous versdion I have taken on holidy for 2 years running, and read twice_ I could not put it down. I appreciate the maps and other supplementary features in this Landmark edition

The Landmark of Arrian ist ein großartig gemachtes kleines Buch. Der Preis ist wirklich fair, und die Abbildungen sowie die Beschreibungen im Buch sind sehr hilfreich . Es ist zwar auf Englisch, was vielleicht für manche etwas mühsam ist, aber der Inhalt macht das mehr als wett. Es handelt sich um ein sehr gut aufbereitetes wissenschaftliches Werk, das einen klaren und spannenden Überblick über die Anabasis Alexanders des Großen bietet. Wirklich sehr zu empfehlen, sowohl für Interessierte als auch für Leute, die sich etwas tiefer mit dem Thema beschäftigen wollen.

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This a good book giving you a glimpse of the military tactics of Alexander the great, along with maps of the locations and helpful annotations of the background for a particular context.If you are a military science enthusiast then it is definitely a buy.Regarding the quality of the book I am a bit annoyed, it is semi-used with the edges of outer cover worn out, pages already turned over a hundred times and the surprising thing is inside there is an amazon receipt of the previous purchaser, very sloppy packaging.

Absolutely terrible condition for a $40 band new book! Disgusting!

Landmark's edition of Arrian's "Anabasis Alexandrou" (The Campaigns of Alexander) is absolutely fantastic. Each time I started to read it, I had a hard time putting it down. That Alexander did so much before turning 33 years old is just not believable. And furthermore, beyond the historical and political importance of Alexander, from a purely literary standpoint, the story of the expedition is always exciting and changing. Although there were many contemporaneous accounts made by people intimately involved with the expedition available to Arrian when he wrote, all these accounts have since disappeared. We are lucky to have Arrian's account. With respect to this particular edition of Arrian's account, the translation was new and extremely easy to read. The footnotes were excellent because they provided a continuous scholarly commentary. How many times do you make the effort to read all the footnotes, just to realize that you could have read the text twice as fast without missing anything important? Not here. This text has been the subject of much scholarly writing, and you get this information in the footnotes. More specifically, the footnotes very frequently bring in Plutarch's Alexander, Diodorus Siculus, and Quintus Curtius. Sometimes these notes provide new, additional information. Sometimes these footnotes provide conflicting information. Other times the notes address current day scholarly debate and research. Either way, you're left with a deeper appreciation of Arrian and the legend of Alexander. As with the other books in the Landmark series, there were frequent maps showing not only where the cities were, but also where they were in relation to other landmarks. Each chapter starts with an overview map of where the expedition went during that chapter in addition to more focused maps sprinkled frequently within each chapter. There are also maps in the beginning and the end of the book of all the locations mentioned, as well as maps of the whole expedition and the whole expedition mapped up against present-day political boarders. There are also pictures of what the geography and locations look like today as well as artifacts from the era. The 25-page intro by Paul Cartledge was good and the 2-6 page essays at the back of the book by various scholars, about 15 of them, were also very interesting, but not essential. But without a doubt, the star of the whole show was the excellent writing and research by Arrian, made accessible and appreciable by the translation and footnotes. Read the second introductory paragraph of Arrian's text and then smile. Arrian was a little full of himself, but he told the truth! My only regret about this edition was that it did not include a monograph by Arrian called the Indika, which described Nearkhos' parallel-to-Alexander's journey from the mouth of the Indus through the Persian Gulf by water. The Landmark edition frequently alludes to the Indika and could easily have included it. I'm not sure a good modern day translation of the Indika in English exists.