Alexander of Athens () was a comic poet, the son of Aristion, whose name occurs in an inscription given in Böckh,August Böckh, Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum i. p. 765 who refers it to the 145th Olympiad in 200 BC. There seems also to have been a poet of the same name who was a writer of the Middle Comedy, quoted by the Scholiast on Homer,Scholiast on Homer, Iliad ix. 216 and AristophanesScholiast on Aristophanes, Ran. 864 and Athenaeus.Scholiast on Athenaeus, iv. p. 170, e. x. p. 496, c.Augustus Meineke, Graecorum comicorum fragmenta vol. i. p. 487
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