Aeschylus of Alexandria

For others with this name, see Aeschylus (disambiguation).

Aeschylus of Alexandria (Greek Αισχύλος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς) was an epic poet who must have lived before the end of the 2nd century, and whom Athenaeus calls a well-informed man. One of his poems bore the title Amphitryon, and another Messeniaca. A fragment of the former is preserved in Athenaeus.^[1] According to Zenobius,^[2] he had also written a work on proverbs.^[3]

References

1. Athenaeus, xiii. p. 599
2. Zenobius, v. 85
3. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Aeschylus (2)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 44

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aeschylus (2)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.