250s BC deaths

Erasistratus (; ; c. 304 – c. 250 BC) was a Greek anatomist and royal physician under Seleucus I Nicator of Syria. Along with fellow physician Herophilus, he founded a school of anatomy in Alexandria, where they carried out anatomical research. As well, he is credited with helping to found the methodic school of teachings of medicine in Alexandria whilst opposing traditional humoral theories of Hippocratic ideologies. Together with Herophilus, he is credited by historians as the potential founder of neuroscience due to his acknowledgements of nerves and their roles in motor control through the

Greek historian (died c. 260 BC)

Basileus of Bithynia from 278 to c. 255 BC

second king of Pontus

King of Cyrene

mid-3th-century BC Carthaginian general

Athenian poet of New Comedy

3rd-century BC tyrant of Megalopolis

father of Dropion king of Paionia