This great work ( 1828-1877 ) is in four volumes, the third and fourth volumes being edited by J. Franz, E. Curtius, A. Kirchhoff and H. Röhl.

( A represents Arrian, P Plutarch, C Curtius, D Diodorus, J Justin, S Strabo, Iter.

For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.

* 1886 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist ( d. 1956 )

Ernst Curtius, Charles Beulé, and Guillaume Blouet published scholarly studies of the area, and discussions of the region appeared in German and British travelogues as well.

* April 19 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist ( b. 1886 )

* 445 BC: The Lacus Curtius is created by a lightning strike in Rome.

It is consecrated by Gaius, Mettius or Marcus Curtius.

* April 14 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist ( d. 1956 )

* September 2 – Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian ( d. 1896 )

This possibility appears to have been first suggested by Ernst Curtius in the 1880s.

According to Curtius ' History of Alexander, at this point Alexander and a small, mobile force arrived and threw the Persians into a panic, leading Bessus and two other conspirators, Satibarzanes and Barsaentes, to wound the king with their javelins and leaving him to die.

For an English translation, see Lacus Curtius.

Toynbee's overall theory was taken up by some scholars, for example, Ernst Robert Curtius, as a sort of paradigm in the post-war period.

Curtius wrote as follows in the opening pages of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages ( 1953 English translation ), following close on Toynbee, as he sets the stage for his vast study of medieval Latin literature.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are documented by ancient Greek and Roman writers, including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus.

He edited Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria ( 1831 ), Cicero's Verrines and De officiis ( 1837 ), and Curtius.

Literary sources are Alexander's propagandist Arrian ( Anabasis Alexandri 2. 3 ) Quintus Curtius ( 3. 1. 14 ), Justin's epitome of Pompeius Trogus ( 11. 7. 3 ), and Aelian's De Natura Animalium 13. 1.

Ernst Robert Curtius offers an interesting use of the term in a footnote ( Ch.

* Carl Curtius ( fl.

Marcus Curtius about to sacrifice himself.

W. Curtius.

W. W. Tarn slated him for his " complete lack of historical principle "-a view that John Yardley suggests has a lot to do with how Curtius discredited Alexander.

In 1834 he completed the Reform Banquet, for Lord Grey — this painting contained 597 portraits ; in 1843, Curtius Leaping into the Gulf, and Uriel and Satan.

In a separate action, Barea Soranus and his daughter Servilia were also condemned to death ; with Thrasea were condemned, but to lesser penalties, his son-in-law Helvidius Priscus and associates Paconius Agrippinus and Curtius Montanus.

For example, Curtius notes the common observation in the ancient classical world that “ all must die ” as a topos in consolatory oratory ; that is, one facing one ’ s own death often stops to reflect that greater men from the past died as well.

Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling ; she showed a lot of talent and started to work for him.

), Q. Curtius Rufus: Historiae ( Berlin ; New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2009 ) ( Bibliotheca Teubneriana ).

* Livius: Quintus Curtius Rufus ; biographical note and some excerpts in English

The proper spelling of " LacusCurtius " is as a single CamelCase word, with no space ; the idea was to avoid interfering with searches for the original Lacus Curtius in ancient Rome.

; Quintus Curtius iv.

In 1826 François Pouqueville, French diplomat and archaeologist, who wrote the Voyage en Grèce ; in 1851 Ernst Curtius the German archaeologist and historian who speculated about its location ; in 1879 Julius Smith, the director of Athens Observatory, issuing a study comparing the Aegeion earthquake which occurred 26 December 1861 with an earthquake which might have destroyed Helike ; in 1883 Spiros Panagiotopoulos, the mayor of Aegeion city, wrote about the ancient city ; in 1912 the Greek writer P. K. Ksinopoulos wrote The City of Aegeion Through the Centuries, and in 1939 Stanley Casson, an English art scholar and army officer who studied classical archaeology and served in Greece as liaison officer, addressed the problem.

Painter borrows from Herodotus, Boccaccio, Plutarch, Aulus Gellius, Aelian, Livy, Tacitus, Quintus Curtius ; from Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Matteo Bandello, Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Queen Marguerite de Navarre and others.

* 2 September: Ernst Curtius, conducted archaeological research in the late 19th century ; primarily interested in Greek archaeology

Curtius was Alsatian, born in Thann, into a north German family ; Ernst Curtius, his grandfather, and Georg Curtius, his great-uncle, were both notable scholars.

Albert Schweitzer, who boarded with the family between 1906 and 1912, is credited with introducing Curtius to modern French literature ; of great influence also was the Romance philologist Gustav Gröber.

World War I interrupted his scholarly work: Curtius served in France and Poland and was wounded in 1915 ; his injuries were severe enough for him to be discharged in 1916 ; he returned to Bonn to resume teaching.

Curtius saw European literature as part of a continuous tradition that began with the Greek and Latin authors and continued throughout the Middle Ages ; he did not acknowledge a break between those traditions, a division that would separate historical periods from each other and support a set of national literatures without connections to each others.

Quintus Curtius Rufus informs us of the reaction of Sisygambis to this desertion by Darius ; Sisygambis never forgave him, and when called upon to mourn his death was reported to have said, I have only one son ( Alexander ) and he is king of all Persia.

* Curtius, Ernst ; The history of Greece, Adolphus William Ward ( translator ); New York, ( 1874 )

Quintus Curtius Rufus ( active 1st century AD ) referred to the writings of Cleitarchus, a 4th century BC historian of Alexander the Great, when writing his own History of Alexander the Great:

* Curtius Rufus, The History of Alexander

** E Curtius, History of Greece ( Eng.

Alexander the Great: The Unique History of Quintus Curtius.

The History of Alexander, Quintus Curtius Rufus ( Harmondsworth, Penguin, 2004 ).

* Elizabeth Baynham, Alexander the Great: The Unique History of Quintus Curtius, 1998.

This story was recorded by the ancient historians Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus, in " Library of History " and " The History of Alexander ", respectively.