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Arrian the Historian LLeeoonn__77114488--ffiinnaall..iinnddbb ii 1122//99//2200 1100::1111 PPMM THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Arrian the Historian Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire Daniel W. Leon University of Texas Press Austin LLeeoonn__77114488--ffiinnaall..iinnddbb iiiiii 1122//99//2200 1100::1111 PPMM Copyright © 2021 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2021 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 utpress.utexas.edu/rp-form Th is book has been supported by an endowment dedicated to classics and the ancient world and funded by the Areté Foundation; the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; the Dougherty Foundation; the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Foundation; the Rachael and Ben Vaughan Foundation; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Th e paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Leon-Ruiz, Daniel William, author. Title: Arrian the historian : writing the Greek past in the Roman Empire / Daniel W. Leon. Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifi ers: LCCN 2020028394 ISBN 978-1-4773-2186-7 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4773-2187-4 (library ebook) ISBN 978-1-4773-2188-1 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Arrian. Works. | Arrian—Infl uence. | Greece— Historiography—Case studies. | Rome—Historiography. Classifi cation: LCC PA3935.Z5 L46 2020 | DDC 938/.07072—dc23 LC record available at htt ps://lccn.loc.gov/2020028394 doi:10.7560/321867 LLeeoonn__77114488--ffiinnaall..iinnddbb iivv 1122//99//2200 1100::1111 PPMM For Karen LLeeoonn__77114488--ffiinnaall..iinnddbb vv 1122//99//2200 1100::1111 PPMM THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Contents Acknowledgments ix Note on Texts and Translations xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Amateurs, Experts, and History 7 Chapter 2. Novelty and Revision in the Works of Arrian 33 Chapter 3. Alexander among the Kings of History 62 Chapter 4. Sickness, Death, and Virtue 85 Conclusion 112 Appendix: The Date of the Anabasis 115 Abbreviations in the Notes and Bibliography 122 Notes 123 Bibliography 153 Index Locorum 170 General Index 176 LLeeoonn__77114488--ffiinnaall..iinnddbb vviiii 1122//99//2200 1100::1111 PPMM THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Acknowledgments The debts one accrues while writing a book are innumerable. I will inevitably omit many people who ought to appear here and if that describes you, know that I hold you in my heart. John Dillery guided me through the fi rst version of this project and then spared no eff ort helping me to land in a work environment that would allow me to develop a dissertation into a book. Ted Lendon gave the sharpest criticism and the most enthusiastic encouragement I could have asked for while I was writing the dissertation. Many other teachers off ered intellectual and moral sup- port along the way, notably Tony Woodman, Greg Hays, Jenny Clay, John Miller, Margie Miles, Sara Forsdyke, and David Pott er. Colleagues, friends, and mentors have played a key role in refi ning my ideas and sustaining my will to carry on. I especially wish to thank Rachel Bruzzone, Zoe Stama- to pou lou, Chris Caterine, Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi, Katie Rask, Sanjaya Th akur, Owen Cramer, Victoria Pagán, Beth Carney, John Marin- cola, Adam Kemezis, and Kris Fletcher. All my colleagues at Illinois, past and present, have sustained me in countless ways, but the following have helped me keep the “human” in “humanities”: Angeliki Tzanetou, Brian Walters, Kirk Sanders, and Clara Bosak-Schroeder. David Morris, the clas- sics librarian at Illinois, continues to deal admirably with every arcane re- quest I make of him (reader, there are a lot). Antony Augoustakis, a fearless leader and peerless mentor, kept me moving as I wrote and helped me past numerous obstacles. Th e University of Illinois supported my work in many ways, not least a much-needed semester of Humanities Release Time in 2017, during which I carried out most of the research for chapter 1. Th e First Book Writing Group at Illinois and its leaders, Maria Gillombardo, Carol Symes, and Craig Koslofsky, helped me refi ne the arguments of this book and make them intelligible to other people. Jim Burr, Paul Psoinos, and the whole staff at the University of Texas Press have been a joy to work with, ix LLeeoonn__77114488--ffiinnaall..iinnddbb iixx 1122//99//2200 1100::1111 PPMM
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