Editing Arrian (section)

=== ''Ektaxis kata Alanon'' ===
''Ektaxis kata Alanon'' (Ἔκταξις κατὰ Ἀλανῶν) is a work of a now fragmentary nature; the title is translated as ''Deployment against the Alani'' or ''The order of battle against the Alans'' or referred to simply as ''Alanica''. It is thought not have been written as a presentation of facts but for literary reasons. Pertaining to the relevant historical facts, though, while governor of Cappadocia, Arrian repelled an invasion of the [[Alans|Alani]] sometime during 135 AD, a struggle in which Arrian's two legions were victorious.<ref>N. J. E. Austin, N. B. Rankov, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HEjXAwAAQBAJ&dq=Ektaxis+kata+alanon&pg=PA4 Exploratio: Military & Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople, p. 4] Routledge, 2002 {{ISBN|1317593855}} [Retrieved 1 April 2015]</ref><ref name="EL Wheeler -">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1D612o_X2VYC&q=Deployment+Arrian&pg=PA263|author=EL Wheeler|editor=P Erdkamp|chapter=The Army and the ''Limes'' in the East|title=A Companion to the Roman Army|publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn= 978-1444393767| access-date=4 April 2015|date=2011 }} (the word < Deployment > in search criteria was taken from J. E. Lendon {{ISBN|0300119798}}, p. 267)</ref><ref name="N Fields">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v_ZVubRc1mQC&q=Arrian+commander+in+the+military&pg=PA42|author=N Fields|title=The Roman Army of the Principate 27 BC–AD 117|pages=41–42|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=978-1846033865|access-date=1 April 2015|date=2009}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="William Smith" /><ref>[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1441098/Tactica Encyclopædia Britannica] [Retrieved 1 April 2015]</ref><ref>[http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/shop/tacticalhandbookandexpeditionagainstthealans.html Details of a publication (JG DeVoto)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402100517/http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/shop/tacticalhandbookandexpeditionagainstthealans.html |date=2 April 2015 }} [Retrieved 1 April 2015]</ref><ref>[[Pat Southern|P Southern]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=b3UHGXny-NwC&dq=Essay++tactica+Arrian&pg=PT39 The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History, p. 24] Oxford University Press, 2007 {{ISBN|0195328787}} [Retrieved 2 April 2015]</ref><ref>D Hoyos, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gUO9AQAAQBAJ&dq=Arrian+deployment+against+the+Alani+is+greek+tactics&pg=PR43 A Roman Army Reader: Twenty-One Selections from Literary, Epigraphic, and Other Documents (p. xliii)] Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2013 {{ISBN|086516715X}} [Retrieved 4 April 2015]</ref>

Within the work, Arrian explicitly identified the particular means of pursuing warfare as being based on Greek methods.<ref name="this">J. E. Lendon, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gr0H_wr9J4wC&dq=The+anabasis+of+alexander+Arrian&pg=PA267 Soldiers & Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity] Yale University Press, 2006 {{ISBN|0300119798}} [Retrieved 4 April 2015(ed. ascertained Lendon' – ''Deployment'' at [https://books.google.com/books?id=HEjXAwAAQBAJ&dq=Arrian+minor+work+Deployment&pg=PA4 this])</ref><ref name="explicit">Oxford Dictionaries: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120710005922/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/explicit explicit], [https://web.archive.org/web/20120724000753/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/explicate explicate] Oxford University Press [Retrieved 4 April 2015]</ref><ref name="icrc.org">ICRC: [https://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/conduct-hostilities/methods-means-warfare/overview-methods-and-means-of-warfare.htm Methods and means of warfare – 29-10-2010 Overview] [Retrieved 2015-04-04] (ed. used for clarity on concept < method of war > in J. E. Lendon)</ref>

''Ektaxis kata Alanon'' is also translated as ''Acies contra Alanos''. The work was known for a time as ''A History of the Alani'' (''Alanike'' via Photius<ref name="William Smith" />). A fragment describing a plan of battle against the Alani was found in Milan around the 17th century which was thought at that time to belong to the ''History''.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ Perseus Digital Library]: [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0535 R Hercher, A. Eberhard, Ed.] [Retrieved 1 April 2015]</ref>