Alexarchus (historian)
Alexarchus or Alexarch (Greek: Ἀλέξαρχος) was an ancient Greek historian,[1] who wrote a work on the history of Italy, of which Plutarch quotes the third book.[2] Servius mentions an opinion of his respecting the origin of the names Epeirus and Campania, which unquestionably belonged to his work on Italy.[3] The writer of this name, whom Plutarch mentions in another passage, is probably a different person.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexarchus". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 128.
- ^ Plutarch, Parallel Lives 7
- ^ Maurus Servius Honoratus, On the Aeneid iii. 334
- ^ Plutarch, On the Worship of Isis and Osiris p. 365
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alexarchus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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