Alexandros Aitolus

Alexandros Aitolos (* around 315 BC) was a Greek grammarian and poet.

Alexandros came from Pleuron in the Greek countryside of Aetolia . His father was Satyros and his mother Stratokleia. Alexandros lived in Alexandria . He was commissioned by Ptolemy Philadelphus to record and organize the satyr plays and tragedies in the library of Alexandreia . He was a member of the tragic pleiad because he was a highly esteemed poet. The title is only known of one of his pieces ( Astragalistai , about the youth of Patroclus). His works have only survived in fragments.

literature

Doris Meyer: Alexandros Aitolus . In: Bernhard Zimmermann , Antonios Rengakos (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Greek literature of antiquity. Volume 2: The Literature of the Classical and Hellenistic Period. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-61818-5 , pp. 87–90 (see also pp. 946–948 Rebecca Lämmle on Alexandros as a satyrical poet)
Frank Pressler: Alexandros Aitolus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , Sp. 478.
Georg Knaack : Alexandros (84) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, column 1447 f. (outdated).

personal data
SURNAME	Alexandros Aitolus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Alexandros
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek grammarian and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	around 315 BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pleuron
DATE OF DEATH	3rd century BC Chr.