id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9293 Quintus Curtius Rufus - Wikipedia .html text/html 3225 483 64 Quintus Curtius Rufus (/ˈkwɪntəs ˈkɜːrʃiəs ˈruːfəs/) was a Roman historian, probably of the 1st century, author of his only known and only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, "Histories of Alexander the Great", or more fully Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, "All the Books That Survive of the Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon." Much of it is missing. Yardley and Heckel say: "The internal evidence for Curtius' sources is disappointing."[14] He does, however, mention Cleitarchus, a historian in camp, twice,[15] Ptolemy once, and Timagenes once. 1 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFYardelyAtkinson2009 (help) identifies five: Curtius, Diodorus Siculus Book 17; Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, "Philippic History," Books 11-12 (in epitome by Justin); Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, and Plutarch, "Life of Alexander." Alexander the Great: The Unique History of Quintus Curtius. Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great, Book 10. Quintus Curtius Rufus: The History of Alexander. "Quintus Curtius [History of Alexander] with an English translation by John C. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9293.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9293.txt