Lycophron

Lycophron (3rd century BCE), born at Chalcis in Euboea, was a Greek tragic poet and scholar who worked at Alexandria, where he was counted among the 'Pleiad' of tragedians and was entrusted with arranging the comedies in the Library, producing a treatise on comedy. He is best known for the 'Alexandra,' an extraordinarily obscure and learned poem in which the prophetess Cassandra foretells the fall of Troy and later history, famous for its difficulty. Some scholars question whether the surviving poem is entirely his work, since parts seem to allude to the rise of Roman power.