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CURTIUS RUFUS, QUINTUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 653 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CURTIUS See also:RUFUS, See also:QUINTUS , biographer of See also:Alexander the See also:Great. Of his See also:personal See also:history nothing is known, nor can his date be fixed with certainty. See also:Modern authorities regard him as a rhetorician who flourished during the reign of See also:Claudius (A.D. 41-54). His See also:work (De See also:Rebus gestis Alexandri Magni) originally consisted of ten books, of which the first two are entirely lost, and the remaining eight are incomplete. Although the work is uncritical, and shows the author's See also:ignorance, of See also:geography,. See also:chronology and military matters, it is written in a picturesque See also:style. There are numerous See also:editions: (See also:text) T. See also:Vogel (1889), P. H. Damste (1897), E. Hedicke (19o8) ; (with notes), T. Vogel (1885 and later), M.

Croiset (1885), H. W. Reich (1895), C. Lebaigue (1900), T. Stangl (1902). There is an See also:

English See also:translation by P. See also:Pratt (1821). See S. Dosson, Etude sur Quints-Curce, sa See also:vie; et ses oeuvres (1887) a valuable work; F. von See also:Schwarz, Alexander See also:des Grossen Feldzuge in See also:Turkestan (1893), a commentary on See also:Arrian and Curtius based upon the author's personal knowledge of the See also:topography; C. See also:Wachsmuth, Einleitung in das Studium der See also:alten Geschichte (1895), p. 574, cf. p. 567, See also:note 2; Schwarz, " Curtius Rufus " No.

31 in Pauly-Wissowa (1901).

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