'''Alexander Aetolus''', of [[Pleuron]] in [[Aetolia]], Greek poet and man of letters, the only representative of Aetolian poetry, flourished about [[280 BC]].

When living in [[Alexandria]] he was commissioned by [[Ptolemy Philadelphus]] to arrange the tragedies and satyric dramas in the library; some ten years later he took up his residence at the court of [[Antigonus II Gonatas|Antigonus Gonatas]], king of [[Macedon]]ia.

His reputation as a tragic poet was so high that he was allotted a place in the [[Alexandrian Pleiad|Alexandrian tragic ''Pleiad'']]; we only know the title of one play (''Astragalistae.'') He also wrote short epics, epigrams and elegies, the considerable fragments of which show learning and eloquence.

==References==

*[[Augustus Meineke|Meineke]], ''Analecta Alexandrina'' (1853)
*[[Theodor Bergk|Bergk]], ''Poetae Lyrici Graeci''
*[[Auguste Couat]], ''La Poésie alexandrine'' (1882).

==References==
*{{1911}}

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