The Alexandrines: Asclepiades of Samos. Leonidas of Tarentum. Callimachus of Cyrene. - The women poets. - The Syrians: Antipater of Sidon. Meleager of Gadara. Philodemus the Epicurean. - Greeks of the empire. - The Byzantines: Palladas of Alexandria. Paul the Silentiary. Agathias and the Cycle.