(Ἄλεξις; Álexis).
Writer of Attic comedies from Thurii in Lower Italy, who is said to have been the uncle and teacher of Menander [1. test. 1.2]. A victory in the comedy contest at the great Dionysia of 347 BC is the earliest concrete evidence of A.'s career [1. test. 6], although there are references to his conducting performances even earlier: on the inscription listing the winners of the Lenaea he appears only four places after Antiphanes [1. test. 8]; fr. 19 has the bad writer Argas (active in the first half of the 4th cent.) as its subject matter,…