Alexander of Athens
Athenian poet of New Comedy
About Alexander of Athens
Alexander of Athens was a Greek comedy writer.
Alexander 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 in 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.
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Who was Alexander of Athens?
Athenian poet of New Comedy
What was Alexander of Athens's occupation?
Alexander of Athens was a comedy writer.
What nationality was Alexander of Athens?
Alexander of Athens was Greek.
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