Аријанов Дарије
Аrrian’s Darius

Summary/Abstract: For a long time an unfavourable image of Darius III prevailed in historiography, which is largely a consequence of the source bias. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the text of Arrian’s Anabasis in order to show how Flavius Arrian tendentiously marginalized the Persian resistance. Arrian’s accounts, in my view, are not his own inventions. He rather adapted the narrative of Alexander historians, such as Ptolemy or Aristobulus, to the requirements of his own time, thus assigning to Darius III the role of the main antihero.

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