Alexamenus of Teos

Alexamenus of Teos

Alexamenus of Teos, was, according to Aristotle, in his "Poetics" the first person who wrote Socratic dialogues before the time of Plato. [Athenaeus, xi.; Diogenes Laërtius, iii. 48.]

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