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]

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  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 domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). "Alexander". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. p. 114.