Alexander
of ATHENS, a comic poet, the son of Aristion, whose name occurs in an inscription given in Böckh (
Corp. Inscr. i. p. 765), who refers it to the 145th Olympiad. (B. C. 200.)
There seems also to have been a poet of the same name who was a writer of the middle comedy, quoted by the Schol. on Homer (
Hom. Il. 9.216), and Aristoph. (
R(an. 864), and Athen. (iv. p. 170e. x. p. 496c.; Meineke,
Fragm. Com. vol. i. p. 487.)
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