Alexarchus of Macedon (original) (raw)

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4th and 3rd-century BC Greek writer

For other persons with this name, see Alexarchus.

Alexarchus or Alexarch (Greek: Ἀλέξαρχος) was an Ancient Macedonian scholar and officer, son of Antipater and brother of Cassander.[1] He lived around 350 to 290 BC. He is mentioned as the founder of a utopian town called Ouranopolis, in Chalcidice. Here he is said to have introduced a number of neologisms, which, though very expressive, appear to have been regarded as slang or pedantic.[2][3]

• ἀπύτης aputes for keryx herald (Attic ἠπύω êpuô, Doric and Arcadian apuô, call to)
• ἀργυρὶς argyris for drachma
• βροτοκέρτης brotokertes for koureus barber
• ἡμεροτροφὶς hemerotrophis for choinix dry measure
• ὀρθροβόας orthroboas for alektor, alektryon rooster

1. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexarchus (1)". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 128.
2. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae iii. p. 98
3. ^ Gera, Deborah Levine (2003). Ancient Greek ideas on speech, language, and civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 33. ISBN 0-19-925616-0.

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alexarchus (1)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. p. 128.