The Greek historian/biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 46 – 120 AD) wrote On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great
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His only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, is a biography of Alexander the Great in Latin in ten books, of which the first two are lost, and the remaining eight are incomplete.
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Historical novelist Mary Renault, in the preface to her biography of Alexander Fire from Heaven, discusses the various sources which she studied in preparation for her work, expressing considerable exasperation with Curtius who "had access to invaluable primary sources, now lost", which in her opinion he misunderstood and garbled.
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This story was recorded by the ancient historians Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus, in "Library of History" and "The History of Alexander", respectively.
His name appears twice in Arrian's Anabasis and once in Historiae Alexendri Magni by Curtius.
Curtius (Quintus Curtius Rufus), a Roman historian belonging to the latter half of the first century CE, does not refer to any such train of events.