Arrian

Leonardo Gregoratti (University of Durham)

Ed. by Emily Kneebone, University of Nottingham
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.1.1: Greek Writing and Culture: Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Imperial, -800--100.
Vol. editors: Jonathan Burgess (University of Toronto), Anca Dan (École Practique de Hautes Études PSL), Martine Diepenbroek (University of Johannesburg), Giacomo Fedeli (University of Exeter), Victoria Fendel (University of Oxford), Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham), Vaios Liapis (Open University of Cyprus), Elodie Paillard (University of Sydney), Mali Skotheim (Ashoka University), Laura Swift (The Open University), Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti (University of Liverpool)

Dates

Born c. 86
Died c. 160

Places

Active in Roman Greece& Asia Minor

Activities

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Writer / Author

Other

Politician

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Arrian of Nicomedia (c. 86/89 - after c.160 AD; Latin:

Lucius Flavius Arrianus

Greek:

Ἀρριανός [Arrianos]), was a historian, politician, military commander and philosopher of the Roman imperial period.

Life and Career

Life and Career

Arrian was born in Nicomedia, the capital of the province of Bithynia in northern Anatolia (present day İzmit), to a family that belonged to the provincial aristocracy and to the class of equites. The year of his birth is uncertain, and depends on estimates about the age at which he was appointed consul. The nomen gentilicium of Flavius perhaps suggests that his family had obtained Roman citizenship early in the history of the Roman province of Bithynia, in the second half of the first century BC; a more likely possibility is that the name derives

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Citation: Gregoratti, Leonardo. "Arrian". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 June 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13935, accessed 22 November 2024.]