Alexander Aetolus

Alexander Aetōlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiqui

Alexander Aetōlus of Pleuron in Aetolia, who flourished about B.C. 280 at Alexandria, where he was employed by Ptolemy in arranging the tragedies and satyric dramas in the great library. He also wrote tragedies, short epics, elegies, and epigrams, of which fragments have been preserved. See Couat, La Poésie Alexandrine (Paris, 1882)....

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Alexander Aetolus in Wikipedia

Alexander Aetolus (Gr. Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Αἰτωλός) was a Greek poet and grammarian, the only known representative of Aetolian poetry.[1] He was the son of Satyrus and Stratocleia, and was a native of Pleuron in Aetolia, although he spent the greater part of his life at Alexandria, where he was reckoned one of the seven tragic poets who constituted the Tr...

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