Alexander of Athens
Athenian poet of New Comedy
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| Intro | Athenian poet of New Comedy | |
| Places | Greece | |
| is | Writer Comedy writer | |
| Work field | Humor Literature | |
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Alexander (Gr. Ἀλέξανδρος) of Athens was a comic poet, the son of Aristion, whose name occurs in an inscription given in Böckh, who refers it to the 145th Olympiad (200 BC). 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, and Aristophanes and Athenaeus.