Aeschylus of Alexandria and the Satyr Play Amymone

Aeschylus of Alexandria was a Hellenistic poet of the 2nd century BCE. He is known only from a brief mention in ancient sources, which identify him as an Alexandrian. No further biographical details survive.

He is credited with a single, lost satyr play entitled Amymone. He is a named author of a satyr play from the Hellenistic period, evidencing the genre’s limited production beyond classical Athens. The choice of the Argive myth of Amymone suggests an engagement with early Greek legends through the lens of Alexandrian poetics. As a namesake of the great tragedian Aeschylus, he represents a later, scholarly interaction with archaic dramatic forms.