Arrian, Latin Flavius Arrianus c.95-180AD
Greek historian

A native of Nicomedia, Bithynia, he became an officer in the Roman army, and was appointed Governor of Cappadocia by Hadrian. He edited the Encheiridion ('Manual of Philosophy') of his friend and mentor Epictetus, whose Diatribai ('Lectures') he wrote out in eight books, of which four have been preserved. His chief work is the Anabasis Alexandrou, a history of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, which has survived almost entire. His accounts of the people of India, and of a voyage round the Euxine, are valuable for ancient geography.