Agroetas (Ἀγροήτας) 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 (Λιβυκά or Περὶ Λιβύης), which is now entirely lost. It survives only in fragments and dealt with the history and mythology of Cyrene and the Libyan region [1][2].

Agroetas is a minor, fragmentary historian. His significance lies in his role as a source for later historians on North Africa. The Byzantine scholar Photius notes in his Bibliotheca that Agroetas’s work was used by the historian Dionysius of Chalcis [1]. His fragments contribute to the scant surviving historiography of the Greek world in North Africa.

Sources 1. Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aentry%3Dagroetas-harpers 2. ToposText (Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation): https://topostext.org/people/1440