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This pupil of Socrates founded a school in his hometown of Megara.

Euclides. Euclides's school was never of much importance (see Diogenes Laertius, 2.106-112).

This female pupil of Plato was said to have worn men's clothes.

Axiothea of Phlius. This is recorded by Diogenes Laertius, 3.46 (quoting Dicaearchus).

This Samian was said to have turned to philosophy in disgust when his teachers were unable to tell him the meaning of 'chaos' in Hesiod.

Epicurus. This story is found in Diogenes Laertius, 10.2 (quoting Apollodorus the Epicurean).

This head of the library of Alexandria taught the bucolic poet Moschus.

Aristarchus. The source is Suda s.v. Moschus.

This freedman, whom Plutarch says was the first to have distinguished between the letters C and G, is further said to have opened the first fee-paying school in Italy in the third century B.C.

Spurius Carvilius. The source is Plutarch, Quaest. Rom. 54 and 59.

This Gaul purportedly taught rhetoric to both Cicero and Julius Caesar.

Gnipho. The source is Suetonius, De grammat. 7.

This notorious blackmailer was said by Suetonius to have taught rhetoric to both Mark Antony and Augustus.

Epidius. The source is Suetonius, De rhetor. 4.

This famous student of Gnaeus Domitius Afer and holder of the chair of Latin rhetoric in Rome suggested that Roman boys should be taught Greek before Latin.

Quintilian. Quintilian's Institutio oratoria is extant.

This author of a work on correct spelling was said to have taught the Emperor Hadrian.

Scaurus. This is recorded in SHA Verus 2.5.

This Alexandrian was said to have taught both the pagan Plotinus and the Christian Origen among other famous students.

Ammonius Saccas. For Plotinus, see Porph., Vit. Plot. {3.6-21;} for Origen, see Euseb., Eccl. Hist. 6.19.