File:Alexander_de_Grote_te_paard_Titelpagina_voor_Quintus_Curtius_Rufus,_Historia_Alexandri_Magni,_1664,_RP-P-1996-227.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
OverviewAI-generated
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a male historian, writer, and politician from Ancient Rome. A member of the Curtia gens, he wrote in Latin and is described by sources including the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. His notable work is the Histories of Alexander the Great, also known by titles such as De gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum.
He was born in 100 and flourished during that same year. Curtius Rufus died in Africa in 50. His works are held in collections such as the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Europeana Sparql. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 238
Top works
- Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis libri superstites
- Q. Curti Rufi Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis libri superstites
- Q. Curtii Rufi Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis libri superstites
- Q. Curtii Rufi De gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum libri qui supersunt octo
- Q. Curtii Rufi de gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonium libri qui supersuit octo
via Open Library + Wikidata
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- Place of death
- Africa
- Occupation
- politician
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Notable work
- Histories of Alexander the Great
- Image
- Francia, quinto curzio rufo, storia di alessandro magno, 1450-1500 ca., med. pal. 155, 02.JPG
- Said to be same as
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Show 11 more facts
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Quintus Curtius Rufus, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
![Quinti Curtii epistola[rum] liber i. Q.C. de auctoritate data hanibali liber secundus Q.C. epistola[rum] liber tertius Q.C. or[ati]o [con]tra asentatores [et] de tractores liber quartus Q.C. epistola[rum] liber quintus](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdl.ub.uni-freiburg.de%2FdiglitData%2Fimage%2Fcurtius1500%2F3%2F001a.jpg&type=IMAGE)
~11 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Qui. Curse En La Vie Alexand. Le Grand, illumination from manuscript located at the Laurentian Library of Florence. Quintus Curtius Rufus (/ˈkwɪntəs ˈkɜːrʃiəs ˈruːfəs/) was a Roman historian, likely active in the 1st century AD. He is known solely for his surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni ("Histories of Alexander the Great"), more fully titled Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt ("The Surviving Books of the Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon"). Significant portions of the original work are missing.
Aside from his name on the manuscripts, no biographical details about Curtius Rufus are definitively known. This lack of information has led some philologists to speculate that he may have had another, unidentified historical identity. Several theories have been proposed, though they are regarded with varying degrees of credibility. Nevertheless, the identity of Quintus Curtius Rufus as the author of the Histories is generally treated as distinct.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Quintus Curtius Rufus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.