QUINTUS

See also:

• CURTIUS, ERNST (1814-1896)
• CURTIUS, MARCUS

CURTIUS

See also:

• RUFUS, GAIUS VALGIUS
• RUFUS, LUCIUS VARIUS (c 74—14 B.c.)

RUFUS  , biographer of Alexander the Great . Of his personal history nothing is known, nor can his date be fixed with certainty . Modern authorities regard him as a rhetorician who flourished during the reign of Claudius (A.D . 41-54) . His work (De 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 ignorance, of geography,. chronology and military matters, it is written in a picturesque style . There are numerous editions: (text) T . 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

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

31 in Pauly-Wissowa (1901) .