05-27-2013, 03:55 PM
Quote:Unless I am (and will happily be) mistaken, Arrianus was a Greek priest, who travelled widely and obtained the favour of Hadrian.You are! :errr: Although Arrian was certainly known as a philosopher, he was also a Roman senator who served as legatus Augusti pro praetore (i.e. consular governor) of the key military province of Cappadocia in the mid-130s. His previous career will have entailed the command of a legion (a necessary prequel to command of an armed province) and (probably) a tribunate in a legion (though some senators managed to skip this step). And he was Bithynian, not Greek!
