Encyclopedia > Arrian

Article Content

Arrian

Arrian (known as Flavius Arrianus in Latin) was a historian and philosopher from Nicomedia in Bithynia, who lived in the 2nd century.

His works included:

Anabasis - seven books about Alexander the Great
Indica - a supplement to the Anabasis describing India and the voyage of Nearchus leading the Greek fleet on the return from India.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Quadratic formula

... then there are two different solutions x, both of which are real. (Geometrically, this means that the parabola intersects the x-axis in two points.) If the discriminant is ...