Samos | Vathy, Samos | Melissus of Samos | Lynceus of Samos | Asclepiades of Bithynia | Aristarchus of Samos |
Imitating the literature of the Alexandrian period, they wrote romances, panegyrics, epigrams, satires, and didactic and hortatory poetry, following the models of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius, Asclepiades and Posidippus, Lucian and Longus.