Alexarchus (historian)

Alexarchus or Alexarch (Greek: Ἀλέξαρχος) was an ancient Greek historian,[1] who wrote a work on the history of Italy, of which Plutarch quotes the third book.[2] Servius mentions an opinion of his respecting the origin of the names Epeirus and Campania, which unquestionably belonged to his work on Italy.[3] The writer of this name, whom Plutarch mentions in another passage, is probably a different person.[4]

References
  1. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexarchus". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 128.
  2. Plutarch, Parallel Lives 7
  3. Maurus Servius Honoratus, On the Aeneid iii. 334
  4. Plutarch, On the Worship of Isis and Osiris p. 365

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


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