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An academy of literature by Ptolemy, son of Lagos, especially famous for its grammarians and mathematicians. Of its grammarians the most noted are Aristarchos, Harpocration, and Eratosthenes; and of its mathematicians, Ptolemy and Euclid, the former an astronomer, and the latter the geometer whose Elements are still very generally used.
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