Quintus Curtius Rufus
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Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historical writer in the first or second century AD, generally thought to have written under the reign of Claudius. His only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, is a biography of Alexander the Great in Latin in ten books, of which the first two are lost, and the remaining eight are incomplete. His work is uncritical and fluidly written, but reveals ignorance of geography, chronology and technical military knowledge, focusing instead on character.
See also
- The Roman historian Arrian of Nicomedia wrote Anabasis Alexandri or The Campaigns of Alexander in Greek.
- The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus wrote Library of world history, of which book seventeen covers the conquests of Alexander.
- The Greek historian/biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great
References
The History of Alexander, Quintus Curtius Rufus (trans. J.C. Yardley; Penguin, nd) (also available in the Loeb Classical Library)
Alexander the Great : The Unique History of Quintus Curtius by Elizabeth Baynham.
External links
- Quintus Curtius' Histories of Alexander the Great (Loeb edition, Latin)
- Quintus Curtius' Histories of Alexander the Great in Latin at The Latin Library
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