- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian who is generally thought to have written his works during the reign of Emperor
Claudius (41-54 AD). His only surviving work, "Historiae Alexandri Magni", is a biography ofAlexander the Great inLatin 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.ee also
*The Roman historian
Arrian ofNicomedia wroteAnabasis Alexandri or "The Campaigns of Alexander" in Greek.
*The Sicilian historianDiodorus Siculus wrote the "Library of World History", of which Book 17 covers the conquests of Alexander.
*The Greek historian/biographerPlutarch ofChaeronea 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 BaynhamExternal links
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Curtius/home.html Quintus Curtius' "Histories of Alexander the Great"] (Loeb edition, Latin)
* [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/curtius.html Quintus Curtius' "Histories of Alexander the Great" in Latin] atThe Latin Library
* [http://www.livius.org/ct-cz/curtius/qcr.html Livius: Quintus Curtius Rufus] ; biographical note and some excerpts in English
* [http://www.irantarikh.com/persia/alexdie.htm English translation of section 10.6-10]
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