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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt:...the Pleiad are said to have flourished. Consequently Sosiphanes cannot have been a member of the Pleiad, and the seventh member must therefore have been Aeantides, who has the evidence of three passages in his favor. We must conclude, therefore, that the tragic Pleiad consisted of the following seven writers: Homer, Lycophron, Philiscus, Alexander, Sositheus, Dionysiades, and Aeantides, which is the list of members given by the scholium to Hephaestion, Vol. I. p. 57, 10. 1 For Homer, see Suidas, s.v. "0/ipos: "Onripos ypan/utTucbs Kal rpayifStSiv Toiijn)s, Sub ffvwipiffn'lifhi Tois iink of To SevTepeta Twv rpayiKa» Ixovffi Kal iKffriffav rjjt JlX-i1ioov. fiKnafev 6vniridSi pKS'. Of Sositheus, Suidas says, s.v. 2uffWeos: 2wfff0eos... Twv Tijs HeidSos els, ivraywvurrty 'O/J-pov Tov rpayiKOu... cU-itdffas Kara. riiv pxlf 6vnirtdSa. Alexander Aetolus, as has been said, seems to have been born about 320-315, and in the year 285-284 to have been engaged in arranging the tragedies for the Alexandrian library. In 276 he was with Aratus and Antagoras of Rhodes at the court of Antigonus Gonatas, where he stood in high favor (see Vita I. of Aratus in Westermann, Biog., p. 54, and cf. Droysen, Hell., Vol. III. p. 197). Thus we can safely say that Alexander flourished as one of the Pleiad at the end of the I24th olympiad. Philiscus, the fourth member whose date we can fix, is described by Suidas (s.v. $iMffxos) as rpayiKiis Kal iepein Tov.Voiv'.rn1' iirl Tov JiiXaSA0ov IlroXeafov yeyov&s... Sfori Si Tijs Sevripas rdfews rtav rpayiKwv Cities riri f Ko! lKfiffriffav IlXttds, Kt.; and Callixenus, quoted by Athenaeus (V. p. 198 c), says, in describing as an eye-witness the great procession which took place when Philadelphus was crowned king in 285:... /uf...