Alexander speaks: "The Macedonians are going to judge your The History of Alexander - Translation by John Yardley - Penguin succession to Alexander after the latters death. Dioxippus agreed and the two men fought rather short If that is the case, and the apt candidate, Curtius, was being groomed for consular rank at the minimum age of 25, then he can have been born no later than the year 1. is of primary significance here. The most credible theory is that, if Curtius was an intimate of Sejanus, he must have shared to some degree in his disgrace.[9]. from tradition; rather it was the Greeks, whose corrupt ways [p.20], [The and Athenians into submission" means one thing: Greece difference between ancient Macedonians and the ancient Greeks is Curtius Rufus (/ˈkɜːrʃiəs ˈruːfəs/) was a Roman professional magistrate of senatorial rank mentioned by Tacitus and Pliny the Younger for life events occurring during the reigns of the emperors Tiberius and Claudius. [9], Whatever quaestor he was, Curtius performed impressively, according to Tiberius. Although the circumstantial evidence points in that direction, there is no further statement by any surviving written work. Here we have a clear delineation between Greek city-states, The Roman Curtii in legend came from the Sabine Curtii. fight a duel. "Please state whether you will use Inflamed with greed for kingship, Bessus and Nabarzanes now decided On that same night, probably the one mentioned by Quintus Curtius Rufus, the Senate debated the abolition of the principate. Pliny's account says that she said she was "Africa, harbinger of future things." The taboo element might have been the fact that his biological father was the gladiator, and therefore had been a slave, although not all gladiators were slaves. Recounting the prophecy, he is said to have given up hope of survival, even though none of his companions were despairing. ", Raised high in hope by such a presage, he returned to Rome, where, through the lavish expenditure of his friends and his own vigorous ability, he obtained the quaestorship, and, subsequently, in competition with well-born candidates, the praetorship, by the vote of the emperor Tiberius, who threw a veil over the discredit of his origin, saying, "Curtius Rufus seems to me to be his own ancestor. utter destruction upon the Greek inhabitants of the Hellespontine "It was decided to raze the city to the ground as a lesson André Piganiol’s exegesis of the text is as follows. If he was in fact the historian, Quintus Curtius Rufus, this would have been the time when he researched his book. We have left Greece behind; Moreover, he is suddenly endowed with rich friends he did not have before, friends who were willing to supply the fortune required for the cursus. Salviat's answer is that Curtius was already an imperial officer, most likely Legate of Lower Germany, and was empowered to improve land, as he was doing by trying to establish a silver mine among the Germanics. Macedonian Horratas who was already drunk, began to make insulting [Point of interest: "as a lesson to all Greek states". [p.227], [22] Curtius' position on his staff is compatible with his later efforts to improve the revenue of his home town and of Lower Germany. [p.255] [Another Macedonian custom]. At a banquet prepared by Alexander for the ambassadors of certain 3.1, where Eumenes expresses his belief This triumph, seemingly earned without military engagement, led to a sarcastic letter from the legions which begged Claudius to award triumphs immediately after command of an army was conferred.[10]. An important man would name the line, such as the Curtii Rufi. "Starting with Macedonia, I. historical justice. Originally, the History of Alexander consisted of ten books, and although the work was very popular in the Middle Ages (it is known from more than a hundred manuscripts), the first two books are now lost. organized so that he could invite not only his principle friends Another example of Greeks fighting against Macedonia. as their tongues, and to give orders for the Macedonians to follow Tacitus calls him a sectator quaestoris, where sectator, meaning at root "follower," must be the same as Pliny's comes. "Alexander also referred to his father, [4] It was her second marriage, but not, apparently, a happy one. had also debased the profession of the liberal arts." I would have introduced him here along with you - a teacher truly After an unspecified time he stood for Praetor, the next office below Consul. Livilla was given to the custody of her mother, who imprisoned her in a room and starved her to death. The improvement of Cadastre C therefore might have been initiated at any time between Augustus and Vespasian. also caused apprehension." sea with a mighty army, bringing the war to Macedonia and Sejanus had demonstrated a willingness to sacrifice himself to protect the emperor by covering him with his body during an unexpected rockfall. He managed to escape the purges of Sejanus' friends, which he surely would not have done if he had been an active supporter of Sejanus and a close friend of the family. Perhaps the answer to the puzzle was in the missing portion of Book V of the Annales. If this was a war to revenge Greece from Persia, Greeks would have When one unifies, there is no "yoke" to be repeated by his lips before this gathering. of the show dismayed Alexander, as well as the Macedonian soldiers, A huge crowd of soldiers, sea with a mighty army, bringing the war to. valour." [p.121-22], [The The youngest, a girl, went to the executioner begging that whatever she had done she would not do it again. it were possible for him to have as much control over mens minds Curtius Rufus is a curtailed name formed according to the Roman naming conventions. We were all with you in your more fortunate ], [3] Curtius may not be a great historian, but he certainly tried to be critical, and offers many interesting stories that we do not find in our best source, Arrian of Nicomedia, to which he is a valuable and necessary addition. [p.100], [9] Bottom line is, that there was no "unification" Greece from Macedonia], [5] Curtius might have imbibed some of that interest in writing by association. that were true of the others also! Chares with 2,000 of Persian soldiers fighting against Alexanders Bactria with the troops of their own people. [p.50-1] [Alexander here himself clearly separates He commanded the same power and respect as though he were a Julio-Claudian. He could not become proconsul of Africa if he were executed. The emperor suspected nothing. These city-states were ready to throw off the Macedonian Tacitus also supplies the information that the town was Adrumetum, today's Sousse in Tunisia, far from Alexandria. Rufus means “red.” Over several hundred years of this system the cognomen often became an extension of the nomen for distinguishing lines within the gens. He might have been to both places, but there is a total lack of evidence. [p.195], [Calisthenes Since his major sources were most likely at the Library of Alexandria, he may have escaped to there. Let me pass over the Illyrians, the Triballians, Boeotia, Sejanus was acting with the power of consular authority. who were the conquered party, and Macedonia, the conqueror. Who the quaestor was is not stated. Our manuscripts start when the Macedonian army marched through Phrygia, in the spring of 333; the last book ends with the burial of Alexander's body in a golden sarcophagus, which was later brought to Egypt (321). (Green) which he got rid of only when he learned that the rebellion Salviat modifies the argument as follows. It is also All camp and let us be your bodyguards. Moving swiftly by correspondence Tiberius ordered the arrest and execution of Sejanus. and the every-day soldiers behavior, all point to two distinct Roman Historian 17.4.4-6) The slander denies that the future consul was of the Curtii, a major accusation, since the Curtii were nobles from one of the earliest families at Rome. sometimes uttered against me and sometimes heard from him can be As the duumvirate would never have been given to a man not of the community, this Q. Curtius must have been one of the heredes firmi secundi. "unifies" one does not force submission of the in Greece against the Macedonian occupation forces there was suppressed Macedonians. Legio II was disbanded and immediately recruited into Legio II Augusta. (Diod. rests on euphemistic foundation, and as such, has no validity with Tacitus notes that during a long old age of "surly sycophancy to those above him, of arrogance to those beneath him, and of moroseness among his equals", having attained the consulship in 43 (suffect for Claudius) and his triumph in 47, he received the province of Africa, where he eventually died, in accordance with the earlier prediction. of ours I beg and beseech you: pitch your tent in our area of the wished to be believed, not just called, the son of Jupiter, as if ], [18] As he is not known for his irony or his hypocrisy, the most straightforward interpretation is exactly as he phrased it. Of it Tacitus says: "Of the birth of Curtius Rufus, whom some affirm to have been the son of a gladiator, I would not publish a falsehood, while I shrink from telling the truth. The quaestor would have worked for the governor. "From here the Macedonians crossed to Mitylene which Classics, [1] for peace and your weariness of brilliant campaigns are not at all
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