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Alexander Aetolus (Alexandros ho Aitolos), a Greek poet and grammarian, who lived in the reign of Ptolemaeus Philadelphus. He was the son of Satyrus and Stratocleia, and a native of Pleuron in Aetolia, but spent the greater part of his life at Alexandria, where he was reckoned one of the seven tragic poets who constituted the tragic pleiad (Suid. s. v.; Eudoc. p. 62; Paus. ii. 22.7; Schol. ad Hom. Il. xvi. 233). He had an office in the library at Alexandria, and was commissioned by the king to make a collection of all the tragedies and satyric dramas that were extant. He spent some time, together with Antagoras and Aratus, at the court of Antigonus Gonatas.Notwithstanding the distinction he enjoyed as a tragic poet, he appears to have had greater merit as a writer of epic poems, elegies, epigrams, and cynaedi. Among his epic poems, we possess the titles and some fragments of three pieces: the Fisherman (halieus, Athen. vii.), Kirka or Krika (Athen. vii.), which, however, is designated by Athenaeus as doubtful, and Helena. Of his elegies, some beautiful fragments are still extant. His Cynaedi, or Ionika poiemata, are mentioned by Strabo (xiv.) and Athenaeus. (xiv.). Some anapaestic verses in praise of Euripides are preserved in Gellius (xv. 20).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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