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Arrian
Arrian of Nicomedia was a Greek historian, philosopher and Roman official of the second century CE. A pupil of Epictetus, whose teachings he recorded in the Discourses and the Enchiridion, he governed Cappadocia under Hadrian and repelled an invasion by the Alans around 135. His Anabasis of Alexander is the most important surviving account of Alexander the Great's campaigns.
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