The History of AlexanderPenguin UK, 28/04/2005 - 352 من الصفحات Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries, Alexander himself remains an enigma. Curtius' History offers a great deal of information unobtainable from other sources of the time. A compelling narrative of a turbulent era, the work recounts events on a heroic scale, detailing court intrigue, stirring speeches and brutal battles - among them, those of Macedonia's great war with Persia, which was to culminate in Alexander's final triumph over King Darius and the defeat of an ancient and mighty empire. It also provides by far the most plausible and haunting portrait of Alexander we possess: a brilliantly realized image of a man ruined by constant good fortune in his youth. |
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... Curtius Rufus and the date of composition of the History of Alexander have been vigorously debated. In the past century Curtius' time of writing has been assigned to the reigns of more than a dozen emperors from Augustus to Constantine ...
... Curtius Rufus and the date of composition of the History of Alexander have been vigorously debated. In the past century Curtius' time of writing has been assigned to the reigns of more than a dozen emperors from Augustus to Constantine ...
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... Curtius Rufus wrote during the first century of the Roman empire, and that narrows the field to Augustus, Claudius and Vespasian. Curtius' digression on the unrest at Rome indicates that the new emperor did not establish the principate ...
... Curtius Rufus wrote during the first century of the Roman empire, and that narrows the field to Augustus, Claudius and Vespasian. Curtius' digression on the unrest at Rome indicates that the new emperor did not establish the principate ...
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... Curtius Rufus. The author of the History of Alexander may be identical with either or both of the known Curtii Rufi of the early empire. The first of these is a Quintus Curtius Rufus named in the Index of Suetonius' De Grammaticis et ...
... Curtius Rufus. The author of the History of Alexander may be identical with either or both of the known Curtii Rufi of the early empire. The first of these is a Quintus Curtius Rufus named in the Index of Suetonius' De Grammaticis et ...
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Quintus Curtius Rufus. that he wrote before the appearance of Cleitarchus' book, which he seems, on at least one occasion (9.5.21), to have corrected. Cleitarchus, unlike the other chief historians of Alexander, did not take part in the ...
Quintus Curtius Rufus. that he wrote before the appearance of Cleitarchus' book, which he seems, on at least one occasion (9.5.21), to have corrected. Cleitarchus, unlike the other chief historians of Alexander, did not take part in the ...
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Quintus Curtius Rufus. C. CURTIUS' SOURCES AND MODELS A comparison of the texts of Curtius and Diodorus' seventeenth book reveals that, for much of their narratives, these authors followed the same primary source, and that source was ...
Quintus Curtius Rufus. C. CURTIUS' SOURCES AND MODELS A comparison of the texts of Curtius and Diodorus' seventeenth book reveals that, for much of their narratives, these authors followed the same primary source, and that source was ...
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BOOK 4 | |
BOOK 6 | |
BOOK 10 | |
Bibliography | |
List of Abbreviations | |
Appendices | |
Index of Mythical Historical and Literary Figures | |
Index to Maps | |
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