Quintus Curtius Rufus

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Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian who wrote from about 60 through to 70 AD and 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 fluidly written, but reveals ignorance of geography, chronology and technical military knowledge, focusing instead on character.

[edit] See also

  • The Roman historian Arrian of Nicomedia wrote Anabasis Alexandri or The Campaigns of Alexander in Greek.
  • The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus wrote the Library of World History, of which Book 17 covers the conquests of Alexander.
  • The Greek historian/biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great

[edit] 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

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