Quintus Curtius Rufus
Roman historian · Writers · Lived 100 to 50 · aged -50
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Something wrong?He wrote the only surviving Roman account of Alexander the Great's campaigns that reads like a novel - dramatic, full of speeches, light on dates. Then he vanished so completely that scholars still argue whether "Quintus Curtius Rufus" was even his real name.
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About this person
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 treated as distinct, a name attached to a narrative and nothing more.
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