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Alexis (c. 375 - c. 275 BC) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy , born at Thurii and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen.
He won his first Lenaean victory in the 350s most likely, where he was sixth after Eubulus, and fourth after Antiphanes.
PlutarchMestrius Plutarch (c. 120) was a Greek historian/ biographer and essayist. Born in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius, Mestrius Plutarch travelled widely in the Medite says that he lived to the age of 106, and that he died on the stage while being crowned. According to the SudaSuda (Σουδα or alternatively Suidas is the name of a massive medieval lexicon, not an author as was formerly supposed. The derivation is from Latin, meaning "fortress" or "stronghold". It is an encyclopaedia with 30,000 e, he wrote 245 comedies, of which some 130 titles are preserved. Only fragments of any of the plays have survived - about 340 in all, totalling about 1000 lines. They attest the wit and refinement of the author ( KochKoch can refer to the following: Edward I. Koch former Mayor of New York City Karl Koch German film director and writer Karl Koch, a German hacker from the 1980s see hagbard (Karl Koch) Karl Koch German botanist Robert Koch German physician, discoverer of, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta).The Suda also calls him MenanderFor the Indo-Greek king (160-135 BC) see Menander the Just Menander ( 342 291 BC), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy, was born in Athens. He was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the's uncle, but an anonymous tractate on Comedy more plausibly states that Menander was his pupil. Alexis was known in RomanRoman or Romans has several meanings, primarily related to the Roman citizens but also applicable to typography math and a commune''. Roman The noun Roman means a citizen of Rome. The adjective Roman means pertaining or related to Rome. The name Romans in times; Aulus GelliusAulus Gellius (c. AD 130 180), Latin author and grammarian, probably born at Rome. He studied grammar and rhetoric at Rome and philosophy at Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office. His teachers and friends included many d noted that Alexis' plays were used by Roman comedians, including Turpilius and possibly PlautusTitus Maccius Plautus was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic. The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about 205 and 184 BCE. Twenty-one plays survive. Plautus' comedies, which are the earliest surviving intact.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica