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Arrian
ca. 90–ca. 160
Arrian of Nicomedia was a Greek historian and soldier. His Anabasis of Alexander, divided into seven books, describes the campaigns of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE and is considered a historically viable source for the events it depicts.
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Arrian on Alexander's Conquest of the Levant
Alexander marched from Marathus and received the surrender of Byblus and Sidon; the Sidonians who loathed Persia and Darius called him…