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First century Roman historian
For other uses, see Curtius.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Quintus Curtius Rufus. Historia Alexandri Magni. Leiden: Elzevier, 1664.
Occupation
Historian
Language
Latin
Citizenship
Roman Empire
Period
1st century
Genres
Biography, history
Subject
Life and times of Alexander the Great
Literary movement
Silver age of Latin literature
Notable work
Histories of Alexander the Great
Qui. Curse En La Vie Alexand. Le Grand, illumination from manuscript located at the Laurentian Library of Florence.
Quintus Curtius Rufus (/ˈkwɪntəsˈkɜːrʃiəsˈruːfəs/) was a Roman historian, probably of the 1st century, author of his only known and only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, "Histories of Alexander the Great", or more fully Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, "All the Books That Survive of the Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon." Much of it is missing. Apart from his name on the manuscripts, nothing else certain is known of him. This fact alone has led philologists to believe that he had another historical identity, to which, due to the accidents of time, the link has been broken. A few theories exist. They are treated with varying degrees of credibility by various authors. Meanwhile, the identity of Quintus Curtius Rufus, historian, is maintained separately.
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QuintusCurtiusRufus (/ˈkwɪntəs ˈkɜːrʃiəs ˈruːfəs/) was a Roman historian, probably of the 1st century, author of his only known and only surviving work...
be equated with the first-century Roman historian QuintusCurtiusRufus. Knowledge of CurtiusRufus’ life is a collection of isolated sources. No continuous...
Roman writings (including those of Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and QuintusCurtiusRufus) represented a romantic ideal of an eastern garden; second, that...
Alexander the Great. Boston: Ginn & Co. QuintusCurtiusRufus date. Hamilton, J.R. (1988). "The Date of QuintusCurtiusRufus". Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte...
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main surviving accounts are by Arrian, Plutarch, Diodorus Siculus, QuintusCurtiusRufus, and Justin. In addition to these five main sources, there is the...
elephants to be crushed in the city of Babylon. The Roman writer QuintusCurtiusRufus relates the story in his Historiae Alexandri Magni: Perdiccas saw...
Empire (2nd ed.). London: English Universities Press. Rufus, QuintusCurtius. "QuintusCurtiusRufus, History of Alexander the Great" (in Latin). U Chicago...
ISBN 9788178241098. Diodorus Siculus (90-30 BC). Bibliotheca Historica. QuintusCurtiusRufus (60-70 AD). Historiae Alexandri Magni. Plutarch (75 AD). The Life...
Diodorus Siculus in "Library of History" and QuintusCurtiusRufus in "The History of Alexander". QuintusCurtiusRufus discusses the Dioxippus situation in book...
bark (Cornus mas). The knot was later described by Roman historian QuintusCurtiusRufus as comprising "several knots all so tightly entangled that it was...
chief, Oxyartes, whom he made his wife. The first century historian QuintusCurtiusRufus relates that Alexander crucified Arimazes and the leading men who...
Quintus Ennius (Latin pronunciation: [ˈkᶣiːnt̪ʊs̺ ˈɛnːiʊs̺]; c. 239 – c. 169 BC) was a writer and poet who lived during the Roman Republic. He is often...
of Agrammes among his subjects. According to the Roman historian QuintusCurtiusRufus, his army had as 200,000 infantry, 20,000 cavalry, 2,000 four-horsed...
1990, p. 8. Green 1990, p. 8, citing QuintusCurtiusRufus, 10.9.11–19. Green 1990, p. 8, citing QuintusCurtiusRufus 10.9.19–21. Green 1990, p. 9. Diodorus...
foretold. He is usually identified with the historian, QuintusCurtiusRufus. QuintusCurtiusRufus, author of a history of the life and times of Alexander...
Aulus Cornelius Celsus (25 BC – AD 50), physician, encyclopedist QuintusCurtiusRufus (1st century AD), historian Cornelius Bocchus (1st century AD),...
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Classical Latin: [ˈkʷiːntʊs (h)ɔˈraːtiʊs ˈfɫakːʊs]; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking...
identify the site of Alexander's tomb in Alexandria. According to QuintusCurtiusRufus and Justin, Alexander asked shortly before his death to be interred...
Civilization, 1962, p 125 See: QuintusCurtiusRufus 8.10.34-35; The History of Alexander the Great as described by QuintusCurtiusRufus, Arrian, Siculus Diodorus...
children were sold into slavery. According to the Roman historian QuintusCurtiusRufus, Batis was killed by Alexander in imitation of Achilles' treatment...
references to consanginous relationships in the Persian Empire and QuintusCurtiusRufus states in his histories that the Sogdian governor Sisimithres sired...
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