Alexarchus (historian)

Alexarchus or Alexarch (Greek: Ἀλέξαρχος) was an ancient Greek historian,^[1] who wrote a work on the history of Italy (Ἰταλικά), 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

1. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexarchus". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 128.
2. Plutarch, Parallel Lives 7
3. Maurus Servius Honoratus, On the Aeneid iii. 334
4. Plutarch, On the Worship of Isis and Osiris p. 365

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