Histories of Alexander the Great

Quintus Curtius Rufus, probably of the 1st century, was an author of Historiae Alexandri Magni, "Histories of Alexander the Great", or more fully Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, "All the Books That Survive of the Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon." Much of the book is missing. Apart from his name on the manuscripts, nothing else certain is known of the author.
Curtius' work is uniquely isolated. No other ancient work refers to it, or as far as is known, to him, suggesting, that the booc was censored by the Senate and Emperor. The provinces of the ex-Macedonian Empire were difficult to govern, on the point of rebellion. The work of Curtius, Pratt conjectures, was not politically appropriate because it would have encouraged independence.
The earliest opportune moment to publish the book was the year 167, when the campaign of the emperor Marcus Aurelius against the Parthian Empire had failed, and the returning troops were in bad morale and infected with the Antonine Plague. The emperor attempted to build national pride among the former Macedonian states. The manuscript, by this time damaged and partly destroyed, was finally published, accounting for the previous lack of references to it. As the emperors probably had surmised, it was immediately popular.
Most credible identity of the author is Quintus Curtius Rufus, a member of the Curtii Rufi branch of the Curtii family, one of the original nobility of Rome.
He could have written the Histories in the year or two before his consulship. Tacitus says that he was on the staff of the Quaestor of Africa during that time, which would have given him the opportunity to use the Library of Alexandria.