Pancrates of Egypt was a Greek epic poet from Alexandria active during the reign of Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century CE. According to the Byzantine encyclopedia Suda, he was also a priest and a grammarian, and a contemporary of the sophist Hadrian of Tyre.

His known works are two lost epic poems composed in the Homeric dialect. The first was the "Thalassia" or "Sea-poem," a hexameter work on marine themes that survives in a few fragments cited by authors such as Athenaeus. The second was the "Works of Heracles," which is known only by its title.

Pancrates is a representative figure of the Second Sophistic, participating in its archaizing revival of classical Greek epic forms. His surviving fragments contribute to the understanding of Greek poetry within the imperial Roman cultural milieu.