Arrian's Ektaxis in the Roman Empire: Local Identity, Diversity and the Geography of the Army.

This paper proposes to discuss one of Arrian's so-called 'minor texts'—the Acies contra Alanos which I prefer to call Ektaxis kata Alanōn— and show how it is not only a military manual, but also allows Arrian to discuss identity, fitting into broader patterns and discourses of the Second Sophistic....

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Published in:	Mnemosyne Vol. 74; no. 5; pp. 780 - 799
Main Author:	Chiritoiu, Daniel
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2021
Subjects:	Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. Historians Military officers Second Sophistic movement Military personnel in literature Roman army Rome
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