Alexarchus

:"For the historian with this name, see Alexarchus (historian). For the general, see Alexarchus of Corinth."Alexarchus (Greek: polytonic|Ἀλέξαρχος) was an Ancient Macedonian scholar and officer, son of Antipater and brother of Cassander.cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | authorlink = | title = Alexarchus (1) | 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] He lived around 350 to 290 BC. He is mentioned as the founder of a utopian town called Ouranopolis, in Chalcidice. Here he is said to have introduced a number of neologisms, which, though very expressive, appear to have been regarded slang or pedantic. [Athenaeus, "Deipnosophistae" iii. p. 98] [cite book | last = Gera | first = Deborah Levine | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Ancient Greek ideas on speech, language, and civilization | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 2003 | location = Oxford | pages = 33 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=h5tKJvApybsC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-19-925616-0]

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