The Alexandrian Pleiad is the name given to a group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians in the 3rd century BC (Alexandria was at that time the literary center of the Mediterranean) working in the court of Ptolemy II Philadelphus. The name derives from the seven stars of the Pleiades star cluster.
There are several conflicting lists of the greatest poets of the Alexandrian age (traditionally ascribed to Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace), which include the "Alexandrian Pleiad", some with tragic poets, other which include lyric or epic poets. The following members are always included in the "Alexandrian Pleiad":
Homerus the Younger, son of Andromachus, from Byzantium, associated with "Tragic pleiad"
Philiscus of Corcyra
Lycophron
Alexander Aetolus, tragic poet
Sositheus of Alexandria, dramatist
Aeantides, a poet traditionally associated with the "Tragic pleiad"
The other members are variously:
Theocritus, who wrote the bucolic poems
Aratus, who wrote the Phaenomena and other poems
Nicander
Apollonius, who wrote the Argonautica
Sosiphanes of Syracuse, tragic poet
Dionysiades
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