Everything about Arrian

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ArrianA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: THE ATHENIAN ARCHON DATES IN ARRIANInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates...The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Career of ArrianCited 18 times
5. Go sideways: EpictetusA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Anabasis of AlexanderA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Career of Arrian

  Ronald Syme · 1982 · Harvard Studies in Classical Philology · 18 citations

• Arrian and the Alani

  A. B. Bosworth · 1977 · Harvard Studies in Classical Philology · 17 citations

• The Ars Tactica of Arrian: Tradition and Originality

  Philip A. Stadter · 1978 · Classical Philology · 14 citations

• Errors in Arrian

  A. B. Bosworth · 1976 · The Classical Quarterly · 10 citations

• Arrian at the Caspian Gates: a Study in Methodology

  A. B. Bosworth · 1983 · The Classical Quarterly · 9 citations

• Some Passages in Arrian Concerning Alexander

  N. G. L. Hammond · 1980 · The Classical Quarterly · 7 citations

• A Note on ‘Pursuit’ in Arrian

  N. G. L. Hammond · 1978 · The Classical Quarterly · 6 citations

• Arrian in Two Roles

  James H. Oliver · 1982 · Hesperia Supplements · 5 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• THE ATHENIAN ARCHON DATES IN ARRIAN

  Aneurin Ellis-Evans · 2025 · The Classical Quarterly · 0 citations

• Peran Work Life Balance dan Keterampilan Teknis terhadap Kinerja Karyawan (Studi pada PT. Arrian Jaya Mandiri di Ungaran)

  Wafi’ Ul Ahdillah, Sri Suprapti, Camilus Isidorus Ikut · 2026 · EKOMA : Jurnal Ekonomi, Manajemen, Akuntansi · 0 citations

• An Historiographical Study of Arrian’s Anabasis (on D. W. Leon, Arrian the Historian: Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire)

  Christopher Baron · 2022 · Histos · 0 citations

• Did Arrian Ever Fight the Alans?

  Fatima Foltz · 2025 · Iran and the Caucasus · 0 citations

• The ethics of ruling: Unearthing an ethical code of a Hellenistic king (embedded in Arrian, Anabasis 1–7) and its affinity to the symposia “On Kingship” in the Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates

  Doron Mendels · 2023 · Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates...Vincent, William · 1797
• 📕Io. Marci Fanniani patricij Mediolanensis De bello Arriano, libri sexGiovanni Marco Fagnani · 1604
• 📕The voyage of NearchusWilliam Vincent · 1809

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