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He was born at Thurii (in present-day Calabria, Italy) in Magna Graecia and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen, being enrolled in the deme Oion (Οἶον) and the tribe Leontides.
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Surviving titles and fragments Only fragments of any of the plays have survived - about 340 in all, totaling about 1,000 lines. They attest to the wit and refinement of the author, which Athenaeus praises. The surviving fragments also show that Alexis invented a great deal of words, mostly compound words, that he used normal words in an unusual way, and made strange and unusual forms of common words.
The main sources of the fragments of Alexis are Stobaeus and Athenaeus. The following 139 titles of Alexis's plays have been preserved:.
Alexis Alexis
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lieutenant 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. lieutenant was said he had a son, called Stephanus, who also wrote comedies.
He appears to have been rather addicted to the pleasures of the table, according to Athenaeus.
While being a Middle Comic poet, Alexis was contemporary with several leading figures of New Comedy, such as Philippides, Philemon, Diphilus, and even Menander. There is also some evidence that, during his old age, he wrote plays in the style of New Comedy.
Plutarch says that he lived to the age of 106 and 5 months, and that he died on the stage while being crowned victor. He was certainly alive after 345 British Columbia, for Aeschines mentions him as alive in that year.
He was also living at least as late as 288 British Columbia, from which his birth date is calculated.
According to the Suda he wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments including some 130 titles survive. His plays include Meropis, Ankylion, Olympiodoros, Parasitos (exhibited in 360 British Columbia, in which he ridiculed Plato), Agonis (in which he ridiculed Misgolas), and the Adelphoi and the Stratiotes, in which he satirized Demosthenes, and acted shortly after 343 British Columbia. Also Hippeis (316 British Columbia) (in which he referred to the decree of Sophocles against the philosophers), Pyraunos (312 British Columbia), Pharmakopole (306 British Columbia), Hypobolimaios (306 British Columbia), and Ankylion. Because he wrote a lot of plays, the same passages often appear in more than 3 plays.
lieutenant was said that he also borrowed from Eubulus and many other playwrights in some of his plays.
According to Carytius of Pergamum, Alexis was the first to use the part of the parasite. Alexis was known in Roman times.
Aulus Gellius noted that Alexis" poetry was used by Roman comedians, including Turpilius and possibly Plautus. Augustus Meineke. Poetarum Graecorum comicorum fragmenta, (1855).
Theodor Kock. Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, i.
(1880). Colin Austin and Rudolf Kassel. Poetae Comici Graeci. volunteer
1. West. Geoffrey Arnott (12 September 1996).
Alexis: The Fragments: A Commentary. Cambridge University Press.
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Surviving titles and fragments Only fragments of any of the plays have survived - about 340 in all, totaling about 1,000 lines. They attest to the wit and refinement of the author, which Athenaeus praises. The surviving fragments also show that Alexis invented a great deal of words, mostly compound words, that he used normal words in an unusual way, and made strange and unusual forms of common words.
The main sources of the fragments of Alexis are Stobaeus and Athenaeus. The following 139 titles of Alexis's plays have been preserved:.
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