Alexander of Athens

Alexander (Gr. Ἀλέξανδρος) of Athens was a comic poet, the son of Aristion, whose name occurs in an inscription given in Böckh,[1] who refers it to the 145th Olympiad in 200 BC.[2] There seems also to have been a poet of the same name who was a writer of the Middle Comedy, quoted by the Scholiast on Homer,[3] and Aristophanes[4] and Athenaeus.[5][6]

References
  1. Philipp August Böckh, Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum i. p. 765
  2. Mason, Charles Peter (1867). "Alexander". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 114. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06.
  3. Scholiast on Homer, Iliad ix. 216
  4. Scholiast on Aristophanes, Ran. 864
  5. Scholiast on Athenaeus, iv. p. 170, e. x. p. 496, c.
  6. Augustus Meineke, Graecorum comicorum fragmenta vol. i. p. 487

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alexander". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. p. 114.


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