Agroetas was a Hellenistic historian of the 3rd century BCE. No biographical details survive. He is known solely as the author of a work on the history of Cyrene, the Greek colony in North Africa.
His only known work is the Libyan History or On Libya, which is now entirely lost. It survives only in fragments and dealt with the history and mythology of Cyrene and the Libyan region. Agroetas is a minor, fragmentary historian. Later historians drew on him for North Africa.
The Byzantine scholar Photius notes in his Library that Agroetas’s work was used by the historian Dionysius of Chalcis. His fragments are part of the scant surviving historical writing on the Greek world in North Africa.
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Libyan Myths and Genealogies
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