Quintus Curtius Rufus - Definition and Overview

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, the first two of which 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 book seventeen covers the conquests of Alexander.
• The Greek historian/biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote the On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great

• The "QUINTI CURTI RUFI HISTORIAE ALEXANDRI MAGNI" can be read (in latin) and downloaded in the site of The Latin Library (www.thelatinlibrary.com)

References

The history of Alexander, Qiuntus Curtius Rufus, (trans. J.C. Yardley; Penguin). (Also: Loeb Classical Library)

Alexander the Great : The Unique History of Quintus Curtius by Elizabeth Baynham.

External links

• Quintus Curtius' Histories of Alexander the Great (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Curtius/home.html) (Loeb edition, Latin)