[6] One of his tragedies (or perhaps a satyr play),[7] the Astragalistai ("Knucklebone-players"), described the killing of a fellow student by the young Patroklos.
[8] Alexander also wrote epics or epyllia, of which a few names and short fragments survive: the Halieus ("Fisherman"), about the sea-god Glaukos,[9] and the Krika or Kirka (perhaps "Circe"?
)[10] The longest surviving example of his work is a 34-line excerpt from the Apollo, a poem in elegiac couplets, which tells the story of Antheus and Cleoboea.
[13] Ancient sources also describe him as a writer of kinaidoi (obscene verses, known euphemistically as "Ionic poems") in the manner of Sotades.
[14] A short fragment in anapestic tetrameters compares the gruff and sullen personality of Euripides with the honeyed quality of his poetry.