Alexis (poet)

Alexis (Greek: Ἄλεξις; fl. 350s – 288 BC) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period. He was born in Thurii (in present-day Calabria, Italy) in Magna Graecia and taken early to Athens,^[1] where he became a citizen, being enrolled in the deme Oion (Οἶον) and the tribe Leontides.^[2]^[3] It is thought he lived to the age of 106 and died on the stage while being crowned. According to the Suda, a 10th-century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

^ Suda s.v. Ἀλέξης
^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἀλέξης
^ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867). "Alexis (1)". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 128–129.

[1] Suda s.v. Ἀλέξης

[2] Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἀλέξης

[DGRBM-3] Greenhill, William Alexander (1867). "Alexis (1)". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 128–129.

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