Ptolemaic court

Theocritus (; , Theokritos; ; born 300 BC, died after 260 BC) was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.

Greek statesman and philosopher (c.350–c.280 BC)

Lycophron ( ; ; born about 330–325 BC) was a Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem Alexandra is attributed (perhaps falsely).

ancient Greek architect

ancient Greek scholar and poet

Cleitarchus or Clitarchus () was one of the historians of Alexander the Great. Son of the historian Dinon of Colophon, he spent a considerable time at the court of Ptolemy Lagus. He was active in the mid to late 4th century BCE.

thumb|Bust of Serapis. Roman copy of the original Bryaxis.

Greek epigrammatist and poet (c.310–c.240 BC)

Colotes of Lampsacus (, Kolōtēs Lampsakēnos; c. 320 – after 268 BC) was a pupil of Epicurus. He wrote a work to prove "That it is impossible even to live according to the doctrines of the other philosophers" () and dedicated it to Ptolemy II Philadelphus, in all likelihood meant for the Library of Alexandria. Although this work is lost, its arguments are preserved in two works written by Plutarch in refutation of it: "That it is impossible even to live pleasantly according to Epicurus", and Against Colotes. According to Plutarch, Colotes attacked Socrates and other great philosophers in this

Hellenistic grammarian and tragic poet of the 3rd century BCE

ancient Greek poet

co-regent of Egypt with Ptolemy II

group of eminent Hellenistic poets

Sphaerus (, sometimes transliterated as Sphaeros;

Hedylus (, Hḗdylos; fl. 3rd century BC) was a Greek epigrammatic poet of the Hellenistic period.

2nd-century BC Greek statesman, historian and writer

poet and playwright of Ancient Greece

Machon (Ancient Greek: Μάχων, fl. 3rd century BC) was a playwright of the New Comedy.

Syracusan princess, daughter of Theoxena of Syracuse and Agathocles of Syracuse

Egyptian Greek noblewoman and the wife of Agathocles