Agroetas

Agroetas (Ancient Greek: Ἀγροίτας) was an ancient Greek historian who wrote a work on Scythia (Σκυθικά),^[1] from the thirteenth book of which the scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes quotes,^[2] and one on Libya (Λιβυκά), the fourth book of which is quoted by the same scholiast.^[3] He is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium.^[4] He is one of the authors (= FGrHist 762) whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.

Agroetas is also the name of a Roman rhetorician mentioned by the elder Seneca, but about whom nothing more is known.^[5]