Alexander Aetolus
Also recorded as Alexander of Aetolia · Alexander of Pleuron
Alexander Aetolus
- Born
- 315. · Pleuron.
- Died
- 300.
- Occupation
- writer, poet and epigrammatist.
- Fields
- poetry and ancient literature.
- Languages
- Ancient Greek and Modern Greek.
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The recorded working language is Ancient Greek and Modern Greek. The field of work recorded is poetry and ancient literature.
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300
Alexander Aetolus died.
315
Alexander Aetolus born at Pleuron.
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- 1.Knaack 1894; Dover 1996.
- 2.Knaack 1894; Dover 1996; Suda, α 1127 = Lightfoot 2009, pp. 106–107, test. 1.
- 3.Dover 1996; Lightfoot 2009, pp. 110–115, test. 7.
- 4.Schmitz 1870; Knaack 1894; Dover 1996; Lightfoot 2009, pp. 106–111, test. 2–6.
- 5.Olson 2000.
- 6.Schmitz 1870; Knaack 1894; Dover 1996; Suda, α 1127 = Lightfoot 2009, pp. 106–107, test. 1.
- 7.Spanoudakis 2005.
- 8.Dover 1996; Scholiast to Iliad 2386 = Lightfoot 2009, pp. 134–135, fr. 17.
- 9.Knaack 1894; Athenaeus 7.296e = Lightfoot 2009, pp. 120–123, fr. 3.
- 10.Knaack 1894; Olson 2000; Athenaeus 7.283a = Lightfoot 2009, pp. 122–123, fr. 4. The interpretation of the title is uncertain, and Athenaeus indicates that there was doubt about the authenticity of the poem.
- 11.Dover 1996; preserved in Parthenius 14 = Lightfoot 2009, pp. 594–599.
- 12.Athenaeus 15.699c; Macrobius, Saturnalia 5.22.4–5; Strabo 12.4.8 (C566).
- 13.AP 7.709, A. Plan 4.172 = Lightfoot 2009, pp. 118–119, fr. 1 and 2; see Gow and Page 1965 for discussion of other epigrams sometimes attributed to him.
- 14.Knaack 1894; Lightfoot 2009, pp. 102; Strabo 14.1.41 (C648) and Athenaeus 14.620e, 136–137 = Lightfoot 2009, pp. 136–137, fr. 18a, b.
- 15.Dover 1996; Aulus Gellius 15.20 = Lightfoot 2009, pp. 138–139, fr. 19. The attribution of these verses is uncertain; see Lloyd-Jones 1994.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 7
- Dover, K. 1996. "Alexander of Pleuron", Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed., Oxford, p. 60.
- Gow, A. S. F., and D. L. Page. 1965. The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, Cambridge, vol. 2, pp. 27–29.
- Knaack, G. 1894. "Alexandros 84", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft I.2, 1894, cols. 1447–1448.
- Lightfoot, J. L., ed. 2009. Hellenistic Collection, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 99–145.
- Lloyd-Jones, H. 1994. "Alexander Aetolus, Aristophanes, and the Life of Euripides", Storia poesia e pensiero nel mondo antico: Studi in onore di M. Gigante, Naples, pp. 371–379.
- Olson, S. 2000. review of Enrico Magnelli, Alexandri Aetoli testimonia et fragmenta, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.11.14.
- Spanoudakis, K. 2005. "Alexander Aetolus' Astragalistai", Eikasmos 16, pp. 149–154.
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