The History of Alexander
by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman senator of the 1st century AD. His history of Alexander is his only surviving work. It is one of the earliest histories of Alexander to survive and draws on sources contemporary with Alexander that are now lost.
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