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- c.280 BCE -
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Alexander Aetolus
Greek poet and scholar
Alexander Aetolus (flourished c. 280 bc) was a Greek poet and scholar of Pleuron, in Aetolia. He was appointed by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Macedonian king of Egypt, to work on the tragedies in the library at Alexandria. Nothing remains of his own tragic writing except the title of one play, Astragalistae (“The Dice Players”), which may well be a satyr play. A few fragments of his shorter writings, chiefly elegiacs, are extant, including a brief appreciation of Euripides, an epigram on Alcman’s homeland and career, and other biographical sketches of earlier poets.
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