Alexander Aetōlus
of Pleuron in Aetolia, who flourished about B.C. 280 at Alexandria, where he was employed by
Ptolemy in arranging the tragedies and satyric dramas in the great library. He also wrote
tragedies, short epics, elegies, and epigrams, of which fragments have been preserved. See
Couat,
La Poésie Alexandrine (Paris, 1882).