The present volume comprises seventeen papers delivered in April 2014 at a conference in Vienna, which was, as far as is known, the first colloquium to be dedicated to Curtius Rufus, while it was not focused upon the more or less reliable historian of Alexander, but on the master of Roman prose, who has been underestimated since the 19th century. Since several papers extended their focus past the aspects of narratology, the rhetoric and psychology of figures to the history of the reception of the text, the reception of Curtius Rufus as such has become another core theme of the published version, which, for this reason, has been augmented with an eighteenth contribution on that topic.