Alexarchus (historian)

Alexarchus (Greek: polytonic|Ἀλέξαρχος) was an ancient Greek historian,cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | authorlink = | title = Alexarchus | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 128 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=143] who wrote a work on the history of Italy (polytonic|Ἰταλικά), of which Plutarch quotes the third book. [Plutarch, "Parallel Lives" 7] Servius mentions an opinion of his respecting the origin of the names Epeirus and Campania, which unquestionably belonged to his work on Italy. [Maurus Servius Honoratus, "On the Aeneid" iii. 334] The writer of this name, whom Plutarch mentions in another passage, is probably a different person. [Plutarch, "On the Worship of Isis and Osiris" p. 365]

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