Editing Arrian (section)

== Sources, transmission, translations and publications ==
Everything known of his life derives from the 9th century writing of [[Photius]] in his ''Bibliotheca'', and from those few references which exist within Arrian's own writings. The knowledge of his consulship, is derived at the least from literature produced by [[Suda|Suidas]]. [[Arnobius]] (c. 3rd century AD<ref>MP Carroll, [https://books.google.com/books?id=k-W83KeGVUgC&dq=Arnobius&pg=PA101 The Cult of the Virgin Mary: Psychological Origins (p. 101)] Princeton University Press, 1992 {{ISBN|0691028672}} [Retrieved 6 April 2015]</ref>) mentions Arrian. Arrian was also known of by [[Aulus Gellius]]. [[Pliny the Younger]] addressed seven of his epistles to him. [[Simplicius of Cilicia|Simplicius]] made a copy of the Enchiridion, which was transmitted under the name of the monastic father [[Nilus of Sinai|Nilus]] during the 5th century, and as a result found in every monastery library.<ref name="EJ Chinnock">{{cite book |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46976/46976-h/46976-h.htm|author=EJ Chinnock|title= The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great|publisher= [[Hodder & Stoughton]] 1884 ([[Project Gutenberg]] – 27 September 2014)| access-date=5 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="Le Clerc, Jean, Rooke, John" /><ref name="E Ferguson">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oUFFAQAAQBAJ&q=Arnobius+Arrian&pg=PA379|author=E Ferguson|title=Encyclopedia of Early Christianity | edition = Second| page = 379|publisher=Routledge|isbn= 978-1138138100| access-date=6 April 2015|date=2013}}</ref><ref name="Hans-Josef Klauck" /><ref>P Kelemen, \El Greco Revisited: Candia, Venice, Toledo, p. 110 Macmillan, 1961 (176 pages)</ref>

[[Nicholas Blancard]] made translations of Arrian in 1663 and 1668.<ref>Alexander Chalmers, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xvk-AQAAMAAJ&dq=Blancard+Arrian+1688+Amsterdam&pg=PA397 The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation: Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Volumes 5–6, pp. 396–397] J. Nichols, 1812 [Retrieved 2 April 2015]</ref>

The voyage of Nearchus and ''Periplus of the Erythrean Sea'' were translated from the Greek by the then Dean of Westminster, [[William Vincent (priest)|William Vincent]], and published in 1809. Vincent published a commentary in 1797 on ''The voyage of Nearchus''.  The work was also translated into French by M. Billecocq, under the auspices of the government (cf. p.&nbsp;321).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=krgEAAAAQAAJ&dq=Blancard+Arrian&pg=PA323 The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 34] F. and C. Rivington, 1810 [Retrieved 2 April 2015]</ref>