ALEXANDER AETOLUS, of Pleuron in Aetolia, Greek poet and man of letters, flourished about 28o B.C. He was com missioned by Ptolemy Philadelphus to arrange the tragedies and satyric dramas in the library of Alexandria in 276 he went to the court of Antigonus Gonatas, king of Macedonia. He was one of the Alexandrian tragic Pleiad. We know the title of only one of his plays (Astragalistae). He also wrote short epics, epigrams, and elegies, the considerable fragments of which show learning and eloquence.
Meineke, Analecta Alexandrina (1853) ; Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci; Couat, La Poesie alexandrine (1882).