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Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian who wrote a detailed account of Alexander the Great's military campaigns and conquests. His work is important because it is one of the major surviving historical sources for understanding Alexander's life and the spread of Greek influence across Asia and the Mediterranean world.
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- 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
- De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni libri decem
- Histoire d'Alexandre le Grand avec les suppléments de Freinshemius
- De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum libri superstites
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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.