The Anabasis of Alexander was composed by Arrian of Nicomedia in the second century AD, most probably during the reign of Hadrian. The Anabasis is a history of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, specifically his conquest of the Persian Empire between 336 and 323 BC. Both the unusual title "Anabasis" and the work's seven-book structure reflect Arrian's emulation of the Greek historian Xenophon, whose own Anabasis in seven books concerned the earlier campaign "up-country" of Cyrus the Younger in 401 BC.
Cavalryman on the Alexander Sarcophagus from Sidon, Lebanon
Alexandri anabasis, 1575
Arrian of Nicomedia was a Greek historian, public servant, military commander, and philosopher of the Roman period.
Bust of Arrian
Alexandri anabasis, 1575