Alexis (ca. 375 BC-ca. 275 BC) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy, born at Thurii and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen. Alexis can refer to: Alexis, a Greek comic poet Patriarch Alexius I Alexis (Eclogues), character in Eclogues II, beloved of Corydon Alexis (singer), a German pop singer ALEXIS, the Array of Low Energy X-Ray Imaging Sensors spacecraft Leilene Ondrade, a World Wrestling Entertainment diva search contestant who uses the... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC - 370s BC - 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 380 BC 379 BC 378 BC 377 BC 376 BC - 375 BC - 374 BC 373 BC 372... Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC Years: 280 BC 279 BC 278 BC 277 BC 276 BC - 275 BC - 274 BC 273 BC... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... Greek comedy is the name given to a wide genre of theatrical plays written, and performed, in Ancient Greece. ... Thurii, or Thueium, was a city of Magna Graecia on the Gulf of Taranto, near the site of the older Sybaris. ... This article is about the capital of Greece. ...

He won his first Lenaean victory in the 350s BC, most likely, where he was sixth after Eubulus, and fourth after Antiphanes. The Lenaia was a dramatic but one of the lesser festivals in Athens and Ionia in ancient Greece. ... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC - 350s BC - 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC Years: 359 BC 358 BC 357 BC 356 BC 355 BC 354 BC 353 BC 352 BC... Eubulus was an Athenian Middle Comic poet, victorious six times at the Lenaia, first probably in the late 370s or 360s BC (IG II2 2325. ... Antiphanes, the most important writer of the Middle Attic comedy with the exception of Alexis, lived from about 408 to 334 BC. He was apparently a foreigner who settled in Athens, where he began to write about 387. ...

Plutarch says that he lived to the age of 106, and that he died on the stage while being crowned. According to the Suda, 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 1,000 lines. They attest to the wit and refinement of the author (see Theodor Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta). Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; 46 - 127), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. ... Suda (Σουδα or alternatively Suidas) is a massive 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopædia of the ancient Mediterranean world. ...

The Suda also calls him Menander's uncle, but an anonymous tractate on comedy more plausibly states that Menander was his pupil. Alexis was known in Roman times; Aulus Gellius noted that Alexis' plays were used by Roman comedians, including Turpilius and possibly Plautus. The name also means helper of mankind. Bust of Menander Menander (342–291 BC) (Greek ), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy, was born in Athens. ... Uncle may refer to: A family relationship, see Cousin chart A cry of surrender An idiom: Dutch uncle, a person who delivers stern lectures Uncle Sam, a national personification of the United States Uncle Tom, a pejorative term for a black person Uncle Tom Cobley, a British folk saying meaning... The lost key [The story from Middle East] One night a neighbor strolling by Nasrudins house found him outside under th street lamp brushing through the dust. ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... Aulus Gellius ( 125 - after 180), Latin author and grammarian, possibly of African origin, probably born and certainly brought up at Rome. ... Titus Macchius Plautus, generally referred to simply as Plautus, was a playwright of Ancient Rome. ...