Quintus Curtius Rufus’ Histories of Alexander the Great

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Quintus Curtius Rufus’ *Histories of Alexander the Great* is a 1st-century AD Latin prose work that offers a dramatic, rhetorically rich narrative of Alexander’s life and campaigns, heavily focused on moral and character analysis rather than strict chronological accuracy.

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Label	Occurrences
Historiae Alexandri Magni	3
Quintus Curtius Rufus' Histories of Alexander the Great	2
Quintus Curtius Rufus’ Histories of Alexander the Great canonical	2
Historia Alexandri Magni Macedonis	1
Histories of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus	1
Quintus Curtius Rufus’s Histories of Alexander the Great	1
Quintus Curtius Rufus’s History of Alexander the Great	1
beginning of Historiae Alexandri Magni	1

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Target entity: Quintus Curtius Rufus’ Histories of Alexander the Great
Context triple: [Azemilcus of Tyre, historicalSource, Quintus Curtius Rufus’ Histories of Alexander the Great]

A. Geschichte Alexanders des Großen
Geschichte Alexanders des Großen is a seminal 19th-century historical study of Alexander the Great that helped establish modern scholarly approaches to Hellenistic history.
B. Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander is a major classical historical work that provides one of the most detailed and influential accounts of Alexander the Great’s life and military campaigns.
C. Xenophon's Hellenica
Xenophon's *Hellenica* is a classical Greek historical work that continues Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War and its aftermath, covering Greek history from 411 to 362 BCE.
D. La Statira
La Statira is an opera by Baroque composer Alessandro Scarlatti, exemplifying his dramatic vocal writing and early 18th-century Italian operatic style.
E. The Battles of Alexander
The Battles of Alexander is a celebrated series of grand historical paintings by Charles Le Brun depicting key military victories of Alexander the Great.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Quintus Curtius Rufus’ Histories of Alexander the Great
Target entity description: Quintus Curtius Rufus’ *Histories of Alexander the Great* is a 1st-century AD Latin prose work that offers a dramatic, rhetorically rich narrative of Alexander’s life and campaigns, heavily focused on moral and character analysis rather than strict chronological accuracy.

A. Geschichte Alexanders des Großen
Geschichte Alexanders des Großen is a seminal 19th-century historical study of Alexander the Great that helped establish modern scholarly approaches to Hellenistic history.
B. Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander is a major classical historical work that provides one of the most detailed and influential accounts of Alexander the Great’s life and military campaigns.
C. Xenophon's Hellenica
Xenophon's *Hellenica* is a classical Greek historical work that continues Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War and its aftermath, covering Greek history from 411 to 362 BCE.
D. La Statira
La Statira is an opera by Baroque composer Alessandro Scarlatti, exemplifying his dramatic vocal writing and early 18th-century Italian operatic style.
E. The Battles of Alexander
The Battles of Alexander is a celebrated series of grand historical paintings by Charles Le Brun depicting key military victories of Alexander the Great.
F. None of above. chosen