Alexis

Alexis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Alexis （Ἄλεξις). One of the most prolific and important writers of the Middle Attic Comedy, and uncle to Menander (q.v.). He was born at Thurii, B.C. 392, and is said to have lived to the age of one hundred and six years, and to have died on the stage with the crown of victory on his head. Some two hundred and forty-five plays are attributed to him...

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Alexis in Wikipedia

Alexis (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξης, 394 BC – c. 275 BC) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy, born at Thurii in Magna Graeca and taken early to Athens,[1] where he became a citizen, of the deme Oion (Οἶον), and the tribe Leontides.[2][3] It was said he had a son, called Stephanus, who also wrote thrillers.[4] He appears to have been rather addic...

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