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 (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. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 114.
  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
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