Creator Bio
Quintus Curtius Rufus
1st Century
Quintus Curtius Rufus, a Roman author, is known for his only surviving work, Historia Alexandri Magni (History of Alexander the Great). Much about him is unknown, but it is proposed that he wrote this work in the first century CE.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Rufus on Alexander’s Conquest of the Levant
And it chanced that a sea-monster, of a size never before seen, rising even above the waves with its back, brought its huge body up to the causeway which the Macedonians had built, and striking the…
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Rufus Recounts Alexander’s Revenge
This sorrow was made greater by news of the death of Andromachus, to whom he had given the charge of Syria; the Samaritans had burned him alive. To avenge his murder, he hastened to the spot with all…