Quintus Curtius Rufus

Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, likely active in the 1st century AD. He is known solely for his work Historiae Alexandri Magni, or Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon. Significant portions of the original text are now lost. Beyond his name on the manuscripts, no biographical details about Curtius Rufus are definitively known. The absence of any record has led some philologists to speculate he may have had another, unidentified historical identity, though various theories carry little consensus. The identity of Quintus Curtius Rufus as author of the Histories is generally t…