Alexander of Athens

Alexander (Gr. polytonic|Ἀλέξανδρος) of Athens was a comic poet, the son of Aristion, whose name occurs in an inscrip­tion given in Böckh, [Philipp August Böckh, "Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum" i. p. 765] who refers it to the 145th Olympiad (200 BC).cite encyclopedia | last = Mason | first = Charles Peter | authorlink = | title = Alexander | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 114 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0123.html ] 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, [Scholiast on Homer, "Iliad" ix. 216] and Aristophanes [Scholiast on Aristophanes, "Ran." 864] and Athenaeus. [Scholiast on Athenaeus, iv. p. 170, e. x. p. 496, c.] [Augustus Meineke, "Graecorum comicorum fragmenta" vol. i. p. 487]

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