{"id":15765,"date":"2023-04-30T14:53:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T18:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=15765"},"modified":"2024-03-02T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T21:11:07","slug":"guide-curtius-rufus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/guide-curtius-rufus\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Curtius Rufus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is aimed at providing a guide for reading sequentially through ethnographic passages from Curtius Rufus&#8217; first century CE narrative about Alexander of Macedon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Persians &#8211; mixed ethnic composition of Darius III&#8217;s army &#8211; 3.2.1-10 and 4.11.6-13 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/persians-medes-hyrkanians-armenians-and-derbikians-curtius-rufus-on-the-mixed-composition-of-darius-army-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Persians &#8211; 3.3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/persians-curtius-rufus-on-military-processions-and-royal-luxury-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Mardians among Persians &#8211; 5.6.17-20 and 6.5.11-23 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/mardians-among-persians-curtius-rufus-on-alexanders-encounter-with-an-uncivilized-cave-people-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Parthians &#8211; 6.2.12 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/parthians-curtius-rufus-on-their-scythian-origins-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Amazons &#8211; 6.4.14-17 and 6.5.24-6.6 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/amazons-curtius-rufus-on-alexanders-relationship-with-thalestris-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Persians and Alexander&#8217;s acculturation to Persian customs &#8211; 6.6.1-13; 8.5.5-8; and 8.7.12-15 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/05\/persians-trogus-on-alexander-of-macedons-acculturation-to-persian-ways-first-century-bce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Parapamisadians east of Baktria &#8211; 7.3.4-19 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/parapamisadians-curtius-rufus-on-peoples-east-of-baktria-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Scythians and their wisdom &#8211; 7.6-9 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/11\/scythian-wisdom-curtius-rufus-on-the-scythian-elders-speech-about-alexander-the-great-the-bandit-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Sogdians north of Baktria &#8211; 7.10.1 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/sogdianians-curtius-rufus-on-alexanders-assessment-of-their-noble-and-courageous-character-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Indians &#8211; 8.9; 9.1.24-31; and, 9.10.8-12 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/04\/indians-curtius-rufus-on-the-environment-and-the-peoples-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is aimed at providing a guide for reading sequentially through ethnographic passages from Curtius Rufus&#8217; first century CE narrative about Alexander of Macedon: Persians &#8211; mixed ethnic composition of Darius III&#8217;s army &#8211; 3.2.1-10 and 4.11.6-13 (link) Persians &#8211; 3.3 (link) Mardians among Persians &#8211; 5.6.17-20 and 6.5.11-23 (link) Parthians &#8211; 6.2.12 (link) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,299,356,296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-guides-ethnographic-passages-ancient-author","category-ancient-ethnography-ethnographic-culture","category-curtius-rufus-roman","category-ethnicity-ancient-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15765"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18588,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions\/18588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}