fl. c. 285 BCE · tragic poet · scholar
Alexander Aetolus
Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Αἰτωλός
Known · AttestedA source places them at the Library or under royal patronage.
In Alexandria: c. 285–276 BCE
A tragedian of the Pleiad at Ptolemy II's court who, Tzetzes says, sorted the tragedies and satyr plays for the Library while Lycophron sorted the comedies. Fragments of his poems survive.
Our device: Their emblem is a tragic mask. No likeness of any of these people is drawn. The emblems are our devices.
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Moments
- c. 285–260 BCE · Zenodotus edits Homer; the drama sorted for editing Known: probable
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Sources (2)
- Tzetzes, Prolegomena de comoedia Koster XIa I–II
- R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968) 105–107