Alexander the Great : the unique history of Quintus Curtius

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Title:

Alexander the Great : the unique history of Quintus Curtius

Author:

Baynham, Elizabeth, 1958-

Personal Author:

Baynham, Elizabeth, 1958-

Publication Information:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1998]

Physical Description:

xiv, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

Abbreviations -- Introduction -- "Roman" Curtius -- Quintus Curtius' sources and his historical methods -- Fortuna -- Regnum in the First Pentad: Alexander and Darius -- Regnum in the Second Pentad: Alexander, king, general, and tyrant -- Appendix: the problem of Curtius' date and identity -- Bibliography -- Index.

Personal Subject:

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Historia Alexandri Magni.

Subject Term:

Generals -- Greece -- Biography.

Geographic Term:

Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Historiography.

Greece -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- History and criticism.

ISBN:

9780472108589

Format :

Book